WordPress

What WordPress is

WordPress is free, open-source publishing software for creating websites, blogs, portals, and applications. You can build pages with blocks and themes and customize a site without code. Plugins can add tools for stores, analytics, newsletters, social integrations, forms, and spam protection. Publishing features include drafts, scheduled posts, revisions, public or private content, and password-protected posts and pages. WordPress also provides media uploading and editing, with roles for administrators, editors, authors, contributors, and subscribers. Developers can extend it with plugins, themes, custom content types, and a REST API. It is available in more than 70 languages and uses the GPLv2-or-later license, which permits running, studying, modifying, and redistributing the software, including for commercial projects without licensing fees. You can install it on your own hosting with a domain or set it up through a hosting provider. The project recommends PHP 8.3 or later, MariaDB 10.11 or later or MySQL 8.0 or later, and HTTPS support. Documentation and community forums are available through WordPress.org.