What is WordPress?

One of those most common questions we hear at Project WordPress is, What is WordPress? Let us take a moment to answer that for you. WordPress is free web software that allows you to build and maintain a beautiful website or blog. It is a CMS, or Content Management System. That means it has been designed to allow users to manage what appears on their website or blog without the need to be a web programmer. That’s right…with WordPress you can have an incredible site regardless of whether you know any web coding at all! There are other CMS systems in existence, but as you can see here, WordPress is #1 by a good margin and just getting stronger. In fact, as of the creation of this video, there are over 66 million WordPress sites in existence, split between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. And it’s growing in leaps and bounds with nearly 100000 new WordPress websites and blogs being created EVERY day. Why is that important? Simple. WordPress is built, enhanced and maintained by an ever-growing community of both paid and volunteer programmers. Because WordPress has so many sites and is growing so quickly, the community is just getting bigger and bigger, allowing for constant improvements and innovations. All of which you get to take advantage of for FREE. Another advantage of WordPress is it’s ever-growing library of templates, better known as themes. These themes allow you to almost instantly have a great looking website with very little work. Finally, in today’s word of …