What Is Wordpress?

OK. This is a new blog.

I'm educating myself about
WordPress.

Here's the Wikipedia article:

Wikipedia WordPress Article

The first thing that the article
says is that WordPress is an open
source blog publishing application.

What does this mean?

I'll break it down.

A blog is a weblog that you make
a journal entry into every day.

If not every day, then every week
or month or whatever.

So, WordPress is blog publishing
software.

That's the first thing to understand.

The next?

WordPress is open source and free.

What does this mean? It mean that anyone
can look at the source code. That is
to say, anyone can read the computer code
that is used to create WordPress.

What about the fact that WordPress is free?
This means you can download it for free.

In other words, it is free software. Your
first download is free and updates are
free.

So basically, WordPress is blogging software.
That's the simple way to look at it.

Actually, WordPress is more than blogging
software since it has been extended so that
you can create more than just blogs with it.

However, it started out as blogging software
and that is perhaps the simplest way to look
at it.

Look at it as blogging software.

That's a good way to get started.

More later.

Ed Abbott