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Many years ago at the beginning of the web for its first decade you have to type HTML and CSS by hand to create a web page, any web page
Gradually scripting languages began to be developed and introduced
PHP became very quickly the most popular and today some 80% of websites use PHP as the scripting language that makes life easier for web developers and makes websites much more dynamic
In this last decade of the web, one particular engine driven by PHP has become extremely popular WordPress
Now the engine behind some 80 million websites around the world
It is a very straight forward simple PHP form loop that sites behind the WordPress engine
You type content into a text field you click submit and a page appears that's viewable by anyone
It makes life so much easier for a web developer not having to hand code that page in HTML and CSS
More powerfully still static pages the front page of a website can be created using the same PHP loop in WordPress
Such the a whole range of static pages like an old website can be created using WordPress a long sides it news feature blog rolling page
No wonder some 80 million people use WordPress