What is Word press?

[joemichal]

Word Press is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. Word Press is used by over 16.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1 million" websites and as of August 2011 manages 22% of all new websites. Word Press is currently the most popular blogging system in use on the Internet.

[harrie]

WordPress has a web template system using a template processor.
Themes
WordPress users may install and switch between themes. Themes allow users to change the look and functionality of a WordPress website or installation without altering the information content or structure. Themes may be installed using the WordPress "Appearance" administration tool or theme folders may be uploaded via FTP.[10] The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations.
Plugins
One very popular feature of WordPress is its rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its abilities beyond the features that are part of the base install; WordPress has a database of over 18,000 plugins[11] with purposes ranging from SEO to adding widgets.
Widgets
Widgets are small modules that offer users drag-and-drop sidebar content placement and implementation of many plugins' extended abilities. Widgets allow WordPress developers to add functionality to their sites. These small modules can be used to add functionality such as a slideshow, Facebook-like box, small news slider, and more.
[edit]Multi-user and multi-blogging
Prior to WordPress 3.0, WordPress supported one blog per installation, although multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables. WordPress Multi-User (WordPress MU, or just WPMU) was a fork of WordPress created to allow multiple blogs to exist within one installation that is able to be administered by a centralized maintainer. WordPress MU makes it possible for those with a website to host their own blogging community, as well as control and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard. WordPress MU adds eight new data tables for each blog.
WordPress MU merged with WordPress as part of the 3.0 release

[clara_butler]

WordPress is the greatest blogging platform till date. This statement is admitted by the top bloggers of the world. I like WP because it's user friendly Plugins. Plugins are a backbone of WordPress. By make use of plugins, users can customize performance of blog according to need. Some famous plugins are All in one SEO, Akismet, Robots meta, SEO friendly images plugin.

[abhirampathak3]

WordPress has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations.
WordPress has a “5 – minute “ installation procedure,which makes even the installation and setup process convenient for beginners.
The developers can create professional WordPress themes, including custom WordPress design templates. They can also develop custom WordPress plugins or even customize any third party plugins to enrich the CMS driven website with features.
WordPress is built for blogging. Whether you have a standalone business blog or a small page-based website, WordPress has all the CMS features you need.
WordPress has earned users favor by being simple, flexible, and powerful. And the more one uses it, the more we understand how simple, flexible, and powerful it truly is.
WordPress is an open source blog publishing program that’s easy to setup and free to use. You use WordPress to manage posts, comments and files.

[mikeslough5]

Thanks for the informative posting.

[jaysh4922]

Simply its saying WordPress is a free, Web-based software program that anyone can use to build and maintain a website or blog.

[msherry]

Word press embodies a powerful solution for real estate websites with lots of features and functionality that perfectly fit an online real estate business. It comes with functionalities as properties with 20+ fields for each property, photo gallery, agent details, and location.

[amisha]

Hi everyone,
Wordpress is an open source content management system that has an admin panel which makes it simple to use in adding or editing content without having to worry about coding. It has a large community so there is a huge amount of information or tutorials to get started with it. And with all its attributes, you can have your website up and running in no time.

[markboucher12]

WordPress is well know for blogging and CMS.
It is a very easiest platform for blogging, even a beginner can start blogging on WordPress.

[ThomasCarrillo]

Word press is one platform for creating a website and blogs. f anybody want to create a website in free, then wordpress would be the best option for him. Wordpress gives great opportunities to make innovative and impressive website.

[mitapaul16]

Wordpress is a well set blogging program through which we can create blogs and websites as and when it is required. It has started in 2003 with a single bit of code.Wordpress is completely customized and can be used almost for everything.

[semster]

Wordpress is a free open source content management system (CMS). Today in internet wordpress CMS using widely by the website owners. You can customize the theme of wordpress and make your theme according to your business requirement and this CMS is SEO friendly so it will be helpful to you to get better ranking of your website through wordpress

[Raju]

nice thread , but if you already know the question so why you making fool of others by questioning.

[uthra]

WordPress is a self-contained system and does not require HTML editing software (such as Adobe Contribute or Dreamweaver). You can create a new page or blog post, format text, upload images (and edit them), upload documents, video files, image galleries, etc. all without the need for additional HTML or FTP software.

[partapamit]

Nice and informative post overall ,worth to read this , thanks.