Meet WordPress

WordPress is open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

Beautiful designs, powerful features, and the freedom to build anything you want. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

Trusted by the Best

42% of the web uses WordPress, from hobby blogs to the biggest news sites online.

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Powerful Features

Limitless possibilities. What will you create?

Customizable
Designs
SEO
Friendly
Responsive
Mobile Sites
High
Performance
Manage
on the Go
High
Security
Powerful
Media Management
Easy and
Accessible

Extend WordPress with over 55,000 plugins to help your website meet your needs. Add an online store, galleries, mailing lists, forums, analytics, and much more.

Community

Hundreds of thousands of developers, content creators, and site owners gather at monthly meetups in 817 cities worldwide.

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Get Started with WordPress

Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — join the family.

Get WordPress

In episode 18 of WP Briefing, Josepha Haden Chomphosy reflects on a recent lecture that she gave to students at Hendrix College in which she explored the economics of WordPress and the principles that sustain the project’s ecosystem. Have a question you’d like answered? You can submit them to wpbriefing@wordpress.org, either written or as a […]

It’s Easy As…

Find a trusted web host and maybe support WordPress at the same time.
Download & install WordPress with our famous 5-minute installation. Publishing has never been easier.
Spend some time reading our documentation, get to know WordPress better every day and start helping others, too.

WordPress Users

… and hundreds more

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