WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured publishing system built on PHP and MySQL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress’ roots and development go back to 2001 making it an amazingly mature and stable application.
WordPress is a powerful, publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible. WordPress 3.0 intoduced the ability to host and manage multiple websites powered by WordPress, each of which may have their own unique functionality and/or look and feel. It offers a freely distributed, standards-compliant, fast, light and free personal publishing platform, with sensible default settings and features, and an extremely customizable core.
Who is WordPress for?
WordPress may be used to power Web sites of all shapes, sizes, and purposes. For example:
- Blogs
- Corporate Web sites or portals
- Corporate intranets and extranets
- Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
- E-commerce and online reservations
- Government applications
- Small business Web sites
- Non-profit and organizational Web sites
- Community-based portals
- School and church Web sites
- Personal or family homepages
