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“What is WordPress,
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anyway?”
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WordPress is an open source blog software package that works
exceptionally well as a content
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management system, a blog system, or a traditional website. It
makes it easy for anyone to set up,
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manage and maintain a
website—without having an advanced degree in geekery.
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WordPress started in 2003 and is now the largest self-hosted
blogging tool and is used on, literally,
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millions of
sites worldwide.
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For example, the New York Times runs its blogs using WordPress.
That should tell you something
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about how powerful and safe it is to use. But don’t let that
scare you. Just as the NY Times uses
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WordPress, so do many
“first-time-onliners” who have never touched any type of web design system
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at all. So it’s
simple enough for even the most wary user.
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First, since WordPress is open source, it’s free. That’s always
a bonus.
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Since it is open source it also has a thriving community of
developers constantly improving the
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software and creating
plugins to expand the software.
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WordPress lets you create pages (stand alone content) and posts
(time-driven content) to build out
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the content of your
site. And you can also easily manage your site’s look and feel with themes.
These
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are custom designs
for your site that control how everything is laid out and organized. (If you’re
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familiar with
the term “template” just substitute the term “theme” when talking about
WordPress.)
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The software is highly customizable, and has literally thousands
of “plugin” pieces of software so
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you can use
your site for just about anything. (More about plugins later.)
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