Major Difference between a Wordpress site and a website

Well, to start with WordPress is a site builder. It builds websites and is good for bloggers, especially if they have no experience with web development. Almost anyone can create a website using WordPress. As I said a WordPress site is often a blog. The term blog is used to describe a site that is updated frequently containing written content often about a specific subject matter typically in a conversation format.

A website is simply a grouping of World Wide Web pages. This can come in many forms.

Note that there is also WordPress development where a developer can create themes and plugins using PHP. I have no experience with this so I can't really go in to detail here.

Okay, that is to say a WordPress is just like a site-builder (a website that builds website). and a website is a group of compiled World Wide Web Pages. Please I will also like to know, Are there any disadvantages to using a WordPress? does using a WordPress takes away part of the website control from the user?

I wish to build a Real Estate Website where I can sell houses, Rent Houses out to people, Do cleaning Services (A company Website)

Is it okay for me to use a WordPress Blog?

I know, Am asking too many questions, but i really need to know how all these things fit together and which I should use, Thanks

Thanks alot for your time

You mentioned 3 terms (WordPress, Blog, Website).

Here is the breakdown & explanation for each one.

1) WordPress A WordPress website is simply a website that is managed through a GUI (graphical user interface) in order to manage the core components of the site such as theme/appearance, pages, blog posts, plugins (ex. Analytics, Security, etc.) and even users if there are more than 1 person having access to the site. Currently there are 2 kinds of WordPress sites. WordPress.org which is the version of WordPress which you have to install and manage yourself. It usually requires some time to learn and get used to but it definitely hides away a lot of the complexities that goes behind a website such as database management and a whole lot more. The second type of WordPress site is WordPress.com and this is more of an beginner friendly platform where you don't have to install anything yourself and they usually handle stuff like security, analytics, etc. for you without you have to have a whole lot of technical knowledge.

2) Website A website is any webpage you navigate to in your browser. Websites can be built using many different languages and frameworks nowadays such as Rails, Node.js, and much more. Each framework and language has its pros and cons but usually with this approach, there are usually no GUIs involved like WordPress. At this point it's mostly code.

3) Blog A blog can be considered a sub category of a website. WordPress is very popular to use for blogs since it's easy to publish content without having that much technical knowledge.

Since blog is technically a sub category of a website, I am going to give you a brief difference between a website and WordPress. The main difference is that WordPress is mostly managed by GUI and is easy to manage than a website that's built from scratch using different technologies like ASP.NET and MySQL for example where you have to have technical knowledge in order to manage it and build features on it.

I hope this explanation was clear enough and not too technical.

A website is a group of web pages connected through hyperlinks. Some websites are static — fixed content, HTML pages. In other words, no programming is involved to dynamically pull content (from a database, for example). To make changes to these pages, you'll have to go into the code using a text editor.

WordPress is a content management system. It allows you to edit websites without any coding knowledge — drag and drop items, WYSIWYG editor, uploading images, etc. Initially, WordPress was mostly used as a blogging platform — a way to write posts/articles, share them with others, and start a conversation. However, WordPress has grown into so much more.

are there any disadvantages to using a wordpres over a website?