WordPress

Easy to Use and Powerful

WordPress is the world’s most popular free and open-source content management system (CMS), built as the official successor of b2/cafelog on PHP and MySQL. WordPress is one of the easiest and most powerful modern blogging and website content management systems (CMS) in existence.

In addition to its intuitive, user-friendly interface, WordPress features a robust plugin architecture and theme template. Since its inception, WordPress has grown to become the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people daily.

Millions of Websites Use WordPress

WordPress is the most popular blogging system on the web, used by over 60 million websites. As of August 2013, WordPress has been the CMS of choice for more than 23.2% of the top 10 million websites. Music sites, Fortune 500 companies, and celebrities all choose WordPress. But WordPress is most commonly used by news and technology sites, such as Mashable, TechCrunch, The New York Times, and CNN. To discover more of the biggest brands that choose WordPress for their CMS, read the official page on their clients.

Why You Should Use WordPress

WordPress is a free, web-based software program; anyone can use it to create and maintain a blog or full website. Built on PHP and MySQL, the software was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system.

As an open source project, WordPress was created by and for the community, with hundreds of people all over the world utilizing it for everything from a pet’s home page to a Fortune 500 web site, all without having to pay anyone a license fee and a number of other important freedoms. WordPress began as just a blogging system, but it has since evolved to be used as full content management system through thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes.

So Many Themes and Plugins!

WordPress users install and switch between themes, which allow users to change the look, feel, and functionality of a WordPress website without altering the structure or information content of the site. The PHP, HTML, and CSS code in themes can be added to or edited to provide additional advanced features.

There are thousands of WordPress themes, some free, and some templates that can be purchased. With sufficient knowledge and skill, WordPress users can also create and develop custom themes of their own. The plugin architecture of WordPress allows users to extend its features even further. Over 30,000 plugins are currently available, each of which provides custom features and functions that enable users to tailor their sites to their specific needs.

These customizations range from search engine optimization (SEO), to client portals used to display private information only to logged in users, to content displaying features, such as the additional widgets and navigation bars.