What is WordPress?

WordPress was created from the desire to have a well-designed, structured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL. It was licensed under the GPLv2 (or later). WordPress was preceded by b2/cafelog, and although WordPress is original software, it traces its roots back to 2001.

WordPress officially started in 2003, when it had only one bit of code to enhance the typography of writing, and it had fewer than twenty users. Since then, WordPress has grown into the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites all around the world.

The Features of WordPress:

WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform with hundreds of people worldwide working on it, unlike most commercial platforms. Being open source, you are free to use it for anything from your family’s homepage to a large corporate web site. It is a developed and stable product, and although WordPress started as a blogging system, it has now become a full content management system through thousands of plug-ins, widgets and themes.

Functionalities Of WordPress:

WordPress offers a package of functions along with it, which is deemed to be as good, if not better, than systems that are similar in nature. Using WordPress puts the latest technological developments at your disposal. WordPress has hundreds of plug-ins to extend it, so the possibilities for its functionality are nearly endless.

The Philosophy behind WordPress:

The philosophy of WordPress is that good software should work with little configuration and setup. WordPress is designed in such a way that not only can it get started and be fully functional within five minutes, but you should also have no difficulty in using WordPress’ standard functionality. The average user just wants to write, not struggle with system problems or interruptions. It is for these users that WordPress is designed, because they will be the people spending most of the time using it for what it was intended.