What is WordPress?
WordPress is an open source blog publishing web application running on PHP and MySQL, which can also be used for content management. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. Used by over 12% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today. For more info follow this link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress
Why is WordPress an awesome platform?
WordPress has been around since 2001 and are still being developed and enhanced. WordPress is a free CMS platform that are easy to use, but I you are a developer or just a tech kind of guy, you can customize things in so many ways. You can edit directly in the php/html code or you can even create your own plugins. If you are not that kind of guy, you can choose to download from a library of more than 56.000 plugins. Many of them are free and some you will have to pay for. Because WordPress is used by so many users all over the world there many non-profit communities where you can get help, tips or tricks to your WordPress blog. If you have a business and want a website where you can update news on a daily/weekly basis, you can pay a local company to setup and install your business website and take over and post news yourself when everything is in place. That is the power of WordPress if you ask me. WordPress can be customized in so many ways to support any things from a website, a blog, a Wiki site or a personally diary, if that what you are looking for.
Below is a little video about the WordPress version 4.6. It should give you a good idea about what WordPress is and what you can do with a WordPress blog.
WordPress support forums:
- wordpress.org
- wp-danmark.dk (Danish)