What is WordPress?

[Deborah Arnold]

Hello Chris,
WordPress is very popular because it is easy to use. WordPress is a free open source web based software program that anyone can use to build and maintain a website or blog. Adding new web pages with ease is a major attraction of WordPress. It has great features, plenty of themes and plug ins that make a website beautiful.
There are several steps for building a WordPress website. They are:
Get a domain
Get a host
Download WordPress
Install WordPress
Begin changing the style and WordPress theme.
Posting content on your website.

[Bluesky94]

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. WordPress is installed on a web server, which either is part of an Internet hosting service or is a network host itself; the first case may be on a service like WordPress.com, for example, and the second case is a computer running the software package WordPress.org. An example of the second case is a local computer configured to act as its own web server hosting WordPress for single-user testing or learning purposes. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress was used by more than 26.4% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2016.] WordPress is reportedly the easiest and most popular blogging system in use on the Web, supporting more than 60 million websites.