WordPress: Create a Professional Website from Scratch
What is WordPress?
A course by Anyssa Ferreira , Designer and Web Developer
About the video: What is WordPress?
Overview
“I will explain what exactly WordPress is, how it works and present the possibilities of the platform. You will discover the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org and how the "open source" community works.”
In this video lesson Anyssa Ferreira addresses the topic: What is WordPress?, which is part of the Domestika online course: WordPress: Create a Professional Website from Scratch. Discover the entire process for easily publishing a custom web page.
Partial transcription of the video
“What is WordPress? Before I start, I would like to introduce you to WordPress. A little about your community, its history and the types of sites that can be developed with it. WordPress is a web content management system. It is free software, that is, its code is open and is distributed free of charge. In addition, it has a license that guarantees its use, virtually unrestricted access and redistribution. This is possible thanks to the WordPress community. It is made up of volunteers from all over the world, who contribute code, translations, support and offering all kinds of products and s...”
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Course summary for: WordPress: Create a Professional Website from Scratch
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Areas
Digital Product Design, No-Code Development, Web Design, Web Development

Anyssa Ferreira
A course by Anyssa Ferreira
Anyssa Ferreira is a graphic design graduate and has worked as a web developer for over ten years. She won the first Kim Parsell Scholarship in 2015 from the WordPress foundation. She is an organizer for the WordPress community in Sao Paulo.
As co-founder of the studio Haste, she specializes in developing websites, systems, and plugins. She has collaborated on projects for major companies like Totvs, Companhia das Letras, Elo7, and Knewin. She also speaks at international conferences for web developers like WorldCamp Europe 2020.
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