What is WordPress?

Taken from the WordPress∞ website, WordPress is:

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

And:

WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope by focusing on user experience and web standards we can create a tool different from anything else out there.

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The name Wordpress actually comes from the prolific Christine. Matt had been hacking on b2 for a while, but the new project lacked vigor without a name. A phone call from Christine (who had even checked the domain) sealed the deal; it was love at first hear. Of course now that's more than you probably ever wanted to know about our naming.

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