Since 2003, WordPress has become more and more popular as a blogging AND content management system. In 2006, when I landed the deal for my WordPress For Dummies book, I was so excited and called my Mom to tell her the awesome news! “Hey MOM! Guess what? I just landed a gig as the author of WordPress For Dummies!”
I was met with ….. silence.
Then…. “Lisa, what is WordPress?”
WordPress may power 14% of the web, but I find people everywhere I go who have never heard of it. When people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them about the book and I get all sorts of different questions:
- “WordPress? Is that like Microsoft Word?”
- “Is that like Facebook or MySpace?”
- “Is it hard?”
Funny, outside my circle of friends, colleagues, clients and WordCampers, it is not unusual for me to hear something like “WordPress? Never heard of it.”
This session answers the question: “What is WordPress” on a very basic level.
Target audience: New users, Beginner users, Developers or designers who need to explain WordPress to their mother.
