FAQ WordPress
WordPress started out as a blogging tool and has evolved into a powerful website builder and a robust content management system (CMS). The best part about WordPress is that it’s easy to use and flexible enough to make different types of websites.
Almost half of the web is WordPress. WordPress now powers 43% of the websites that’s 30% of the top million websites. If you count only those websites with a Content Management System (CMS), it’s 64%. WordPress is released under the GNU General Public License (or GPL), which means anyone can download, edit, customise, use, and even sell the code as long as they release it under the GPL license. The software itself is free but you might end up paying for, premium support updates of premium plugins.
Big Name Brands Using WordPress
The Walt Disney Company isn’t just one of the most popular animation brands in the world; it’s also one of the many big name brands using WordPress today. Similar to BBC America, the Walt Disney website takes advantage of a blog-style layout with large featured images and easy-to-read content cards for each news story. WordPress is used also for The official Star Wars Blog · TechCrunch · Sony Music · BBC America · MTV News.
Whether you want to create a website or build a blog, WordPress has certainly come a long way since it was first launched in 2003. Today from businesses including global name brands, to schools & colleges, and governments WordPress is used to create their sites.
As of 2025, WordPress powers roughly 43% of all websites, translating to over 500 million sites, and holds a dominant 60%+ share of the CMS market, far ahead of competitors like Shopify and Wix, with millions of active installations, making it the leading platform for blogs, businesses, and e-commerce (WooCommerce) globally.
There are now over 54,000 WordPress plugins available , with a total of 1.5 billion downloads between them. You can use WordPress in 60 languages, though 71% of content published with WordPress is in English.
WordPress Has Created A Vast Number Of Jobs
WordPress has created 100,000’s of jobs for people with a whole industry of developers, designers, writers, bloggers, and web publishers making their living off it, and a number of self-made millionaires!
WordPress success with its users is attributed to not needing to know how to “code”, and the availability of plugins which are quite often free, these plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine!
