{"id":38211,"date":"2025-12-20T00:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/?p=38211"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:50:33","slug":"what-is-wordpress-and-why-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/what-is-wordpress-and-why-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is WordPress and Why Use It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Is WordPress and Why Use It?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WordPress is the world\u2019s most popular content management system (CMS).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More than 40% of all websites on the internet are built using WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why WordPress Is the Best Choice<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Free and open-source<\/p>\n<p>Easy for beginners<\/p>\n<p>SEO-friendly<\/p>\n<p>Supports ads (AdSense, AdX)<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of themes &amp; plugins<\/p>\n<p>Perfect for blogs, news sites, and niche websites<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 Important:<\/p>\n<p>Always use WordPress.org (self-hosted), not WordPress.com, for monetization.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38212\" src=\"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/images-64.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"822\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/images-64.jpeg 822w, https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/images-64-300x136.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/images-64-768x348.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/images-64-800x363.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What Is WordPress and Why Use It? &nbsp; WordPress is the world\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,47],"class_list":{"0":"post-38211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech","8":"tag-website","9":"tag-wordpress"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38213,"href":"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38211\/revisions\/38213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.phuket-times.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}