For WordPress to work properly we need a web server that can run PHP files, as well as a MySQL database.Ī WordPress hosting service provides the MySQL database needed to store the data needed by WordPress and a server (in our case Apache) to run the PHP files. The browser on our computer is capable of opening and displaying HTML, CSS and JavaScript files. If you want to delve into the topic you can take a look at our article to better understand what is WordPress and how it works.Įvery time a visitor visits a page of our website the server runs the WordPress php files, retrieves the information it needs from the MySQL database and creates the HTML code of the web pages of your site to send them to the visitor's browser.Īll of these operations are performed for every page every time a user visits a page on your website, unless we have performed a WordPress optimization and are using a caching plugin.

WordPress is the most widely used CMS (Content Management System) for creating websites. Making your customers see a site locally.