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. We hope by focusing on user experience and web standards we can create a tool different from anything else out there.
WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 5 web site without paying anyone a license fee.
Key Features of WordPress:
- compliance with every browser
- instant updates of your pages with no reloading necessary
- multiple page management system, links, and themes. Add in any number of interesting and functional plug-ins, to make your site do everything you need it to.
- Make posts private or public, and choose to have password access if you need it.