▼ Software. ↂ Auth G' WordPress. WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, which runs on a web hosting service.[4] Features include a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by more than 18.9% of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013[update].[5] WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web,[6] at more than 60 million websites.[7] Overview[edit] WordPress template hierarchy WordPress has a web template system using a template processor. Themes[edit] Plugins[edit] Multi-user and multi-blogging[edit] Prior to WordPress 3.0, WordPress supported one blog per installation, although multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables.
As of the release of WordPress 3.0, WordPress MU has merged with WordPress.[14] Mobiles[edit] Other features[edit] History[edit] Awards[edit] In 2007, WordPress won a Packt Open Source CMS Award.[27] Release history[edit]