Title: Features
Author: WordPress.org
Published: ഡിസംബർ 1, 2025

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# Features

WordPress powers more than 43% of the web — a figure that rises every day. Everything
from simple websites, to blogs, to complex portals and enterprise websites, and 
even applications, are built with WordPress.

WordPress combines simplicity for users and publishers with under-the-hood complexity
for developers. This makes it flexible while still being easy-to-use. The following
is a list of some of the features that come as standard with WordPress; however,
there are literally thousands of plugins that extend what WordPress does, so the
actual functionality is nearly limitless. You are also free to do whatever you like
with the WordPress code, extend it or modify in any way or use it for commercial
projects without any licensing fees. That is the beauty of free software, free refers
not only to price but also the freedom to have complete control over it.

Here are some of the features that we think that you’ll love.

 * **Simplicity**
   Simplicity makes it possible for you to get online and get publishing,
   quickly. Nothing should get in the way of you getting your website up and your
   content out there. WordPress is built to make that happen.
 * **Flexibility**
   With WordPress, you can create any type of website you want: 
   a personal blog or website, a photoblog, a business website, a professional portfolio,
   a government website, a magazine or news website, an online community, even a
   network of websites. You can make your website beautiful with themes, and extend
   it with plugins. You can even build your very own application.
 * **Publish with Ease**
   If you’ve ever created a document, you’re already a whizz
   at creating content with WordPress. You can create Posts and Pages, format them
   easily, insert media, and with the click of a button your content is live and
   on the web.
 * **Publishing Tools**
   WordPress makes it easy for you to manage your content. 
   Create drafts, schedule publication, and look at your post revisions. Make your
   content public or private, and secure posts and pages with a password.
 * **[User Management](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/roles-and-capabilities/)**
   
   Not everyone requires the same access to your website. Administrators manage 
   the site, editors work with content, authors and contributors write that content,
   and subscribers have a profile that they can manage. This lets you have a variety
   of contributors to your website, and let others simply be part of your community.
 * **[Media Management](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/media-library-screen/)**
   
   They say a picture says a thousand words, which is why it’s important for you
   to be able to quickly and easily upload images and media to WordPress. Drag and
   drop your media into the uploader to add it to your website. Add alt text and
   captions, and insert images and galleries into your content. We’ve even added
   a few image editing tools you can have fun with.
 * **Full Standards Compliance**
   Every piece of WordPress generated code is in full
   compliance with the standards set by the W3C. This means that your website will
   work in today’s browser, while maintaining forward compatibility with the next
   generation of browser. Your website is a beautiful thing, now and in the future.
 * **[Easy Theme System](https://wordpress.org/themes/)**
   WordPress comes bundled
   with three default themes, but if they aren’t for you there’s a theme directory
   with thousands of themes for you to create a beautiful website. None of those
   to your taste? Upload your own theme with the click of a button. It only takes
   a few seconds for you to give your website a complete makeover.
 * **[Extend with Plugins](https://wordpress.org/plugins/)**
   WordPress comes packed
   with a lot of features for every user. For every feature that’s not in WordPress
   core, there’s a [plugin directory](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) with thousands
   of plugins. Add complex galleries, social networking, forums, social media widgets,
   spam protection, calendars, fine-tune controls for search engine optimization,
   and forms.
 * **[Built-in Comments](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/comments-in-wordpress/)**
   
   Your blog is your home, and comments provide a space for your friends and followers
   to engage with your content. WordPress’s comment tools give you everything you
   need to be a forum for discussion and to moderate that discussion.
 * **Search Engine Optimized**
   WordPress is optimized for search engines right out
   of the box. For more fine-grained SEO control, there are plenty of [SEO plugins](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/seo/)
   to take care of that for you.
 * **[Use WordPress in Your Language](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/installing-wordpress-in-your-language/)**
   
   WordPress is available in more than 70 languages. If you or the person you’re
   building the website for would prefer to use WordPress in a language other than
   English, [that’s easy to do](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/).
 * **Easy Installation and Upgrades**
   WordPress has always been easy to install 
   and upgrade. Plenty of web hosts offer one-click [WordPress installers](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/automated-installation/)
   that let you install WordPress with, well, just one click! Or, if you’re happy
   using an FTP program, you can create a database, upload WordPress using FTP, 
   and run the installer.
 * **Importers**
   Using blog or website software that you aren’t happy with? Running
   your blog on a hosted service that’s about to shut down? WordPress comes with
   importers for Blogger, LiveJournal, Movable Type, TypePad, Tumblr, and WordPress.
   If you’re ready to make the move, [we’ve made it easy for you](https://wordpress.org/support/article/importing-content/).
 * **Own Your Data**
   Hosted services come and go. If you’ve ever used a service 
   that disappeared, you know how traumatic that can be. If you’ve ever seen adverts
   appear on your website, you’ve probably been pretty annoyed. Using WordPress 
   means no one has access to your content. Own your data, all of it — your website,
   your content, your data.
 * **Freedom**
   WordPress is licensed under the GPL which was created to protect 
   your freedoms. You are free to use WordPress in any way you choose: install it,
   use it, modify it, distribute it. Software freedom is the foundation that WordPress
   is built on.
 * **Community**
   As the most popular open source CMS on the web, WordPress has a
   vibrant and supportive community. Ask a question on the [support forums](https://wordpress.org/support/forums/)
   and get help from a volunteer, attend a [WordCamp](https://central.wordcamp.org/)
   or Meetup to learn more about WordPress, read blogs posts and tutorials about
   WordPress. Community is at the heart of WordPress, making it what it is today.
 * **Contribute**
   You can be WordPress too! Help to build WordPress, answer questions
   on the support forums, write documentation, translate WordPress into your language,
   speak at a WordCamp, write about WordPress on your blog. Whatever your skill,
   [we’d love to have you](https://make.wordpress.org/)!

## Developer Features

For developers, we’ve got lots of goodies packed under the hood that you can use
to extend WordPress in whatever direction takes your fancy.

 * **Plugin System**
   The [WordPress APIs](https://developer.wordpress.org/) make
   it possible for you to create plugins to extend WordPress. WordPress’s extensibility
   lies in the thousands of hooks at your disposal. Once you’ve created your plugin,
   we’ve even got a [plugin repository](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) for you 
   to host it on.
 * **Theme System**
   Create WordPress themes for clients, other WordPress users, 
   or yourself. WordPress provides the extensibility to [create themes](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/)
   as simple or as complex as you wish. If you want to give your theme away for 
   free you can give it to users in the [theme repository](https://wordpress.org/themes/).
 * **Application Framework**
   If you want to build an application, WordPress can 
   help with that too. WordPress provides a lot of the features under the hood that
   your app will need: translations, user management, HTTP requests, databases, 
   URL routing and much, much more. You can also use our [REST API](https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/)
   to interact with it.
 * **Custom Content Types**
   WordPress comes with default content types, but for 
   more flexibility you can add a few lines of code to create your own [custom post types](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/post-types/),
   [taxonomies](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomies/), and [metadata](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/metadata/).
   Take WordPress in whatever direction you wish.