WordPress started in 2003 by Matt Mullenweg, WordPress has quickly become the world’s most popular content management system (CMS) platform. Some of the largest companies in the world such as Pepsi, Samsung and Ford use WordPress as their software to operate their sites.
What is WordPress?
WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. But in non-geek speak, it’s probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today. WordPress is highly customizable, and has literally thousands of plugin pieces of software so you can use your site for just about anything.