What is WordPress and Why This is Needed

What is WordPress?

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system (CMS). It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet’s “top 1 million” websites and as of August 2011 powers 22% of all new websites. WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet.

It was first released on May 27, 2003, by Matt Mullenweg as a fork of b2/cafelog. As of February 2011, version 3.0 had been downloaded over 32.5 million times.

Source – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress

Why You need WordPress?

If you want to make your blog and you are just a starter on Internet then you don’t need to worry WordPress is here to help you. WordPress is presently the best and easiest blogging CMS. You can easily install WordPress to your domain and start blogging. Here you can learn how to use WordPress to the optimum level.

When I came in the field of bloging or web-designing, I didn’t know about WordPress or any other CMS. I made my website by HTML. Then my friend told me about WordPress. I created a blog on WordPress.com, just to try that CMS and I was really amazed that how easy it was, then I chose to use WordPress on my Website.

Now for last one year I have been using WordPress for my blog. It is easy and really very impressive CMS. Code editor provided makes it very flexible for your requirements. You can easily change font scheme, background or any other thing very easily. So if you are a starter in the world of Internet I highly recommend you to use WordPress and you’ll see how you become an awesome web-designer very easily.