What is WordPress?

WordPress is an open source web development toolkit that you can use to easily create your own beatiful website or blog. WordPress is the most popular web software available and powers millions of websites worldwide.

The core WordPress software is built and maintained by hudnreds of community volunteers. If you're looking to extend the core software, there are tens of thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into anything you can envision.

Create posts & pages with ease

WordPress was originally developed as a blogging platform, and has since grown to offer much more, but blogging is still at the core of this incredible software. Create a continuous stream of easily-updated posts that include social media integration and a commenting system. You can also create pages - permanent content that remains in the main menu of your site.

Manage all of your media in one place

The build in Media Library supports a variety of different file types that can be displayed or utilized in the site. From .pdf files, to video and music files, WordPress will recognize it and allow you to intetrate it into your site.

Plugins - unlock the extensible power of WordPress

Plugins can extend Word Press to do almost anything you can imagine. In the Plugin Directory, yoiu can find, download, rate and comment on all the besty plugin the WordPress community has to offer.

Themes - customize the look and feel of your site

A theme contols the overall look and layout of a site. It provides the framewkrok that brings together common elements, widgets and plugins you're using with your WordPress site. When you first launch a WordPress site, you have several themes preinstalled with your application. You can easily find many more WordPress themes in the community - some commercial and some non commercial. Visit the WordPress Themes Directory to look for the look and feel right for your WordPress site.

Widgets - the building blocks behind WordPress

Each WordPress theme has widget-ready areas that are small blocks of informatiion that you can put in sidebars or footers of your WordPress site. Widgets offer structure, design elements and functionality.