WordPress is FREE and is the number one blog software in the world. It is used by thousands of people today for its blogging tools. WordPress  is an Open Source blog publishing application which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. It is completely customizable and can be used for almost anything; a popular blog publishing system that’s been powering a vast majority of bloggers throughout the world.

WordPress  is the easiest way to publish online, it can be use to build and maintain a website or blog. It is called a personal publishing platform because it was originally intended to be very easy in setting up a blog. WordPress  is a CMS (Content Management System), written in PHP and is supported by MySQL database. It can also be combined with existing website to add weblink and weblob functions. This allows numerous options in URL style, syndicating feeds and formats and it offers very easy to use themes that can be installed and switched anytime you want.

It has a templating system that includes widgets that can be rearrange through “drag and drop method” which means you don’t have to worry editing the PHP or HTML code. For more advanced optimization, you can edit  the PHP and HTML code in themes. WordPress has a rich plugin that allows users and developers to extend the functionality beyond the features that come as part of the installation.

WordPress  is very easy to install, and can be installed by anyone with basic knowledge of PHP and MySQL, it is also available on many different hosting platforms. WordPress  is getting better and easier to use with every new version release, thanks to the effort of a large community of WordPress  programmers working to improve its capabilities that makes much more than just a “tool” for bloggers.