What Is WordPress?

WordPress is an excellent open-source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL which can also be used for content management (See: Wikipedia). WordPress has user friendly interface for publishing text and media. Among of its many features are:-

• a search engine-friendly;

•   integrated link management;
•   clean permalink structure;
•   the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles;
•   multiple author capability;
•   and support for tagging of posts and articles.

Wordpress

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product.

- What Is WordPress?

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