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WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) that allows you to build and maintain a website. WordPress once started as a simple blog system in which the homepage of your website always shows your latest (blog) posts.

Fortunately, you can now do much more with WordPress: it is an extensive CMS with an entire ecosystem of plugins and themes. The question “What is WordPress?” has no simple answer. 

You can explain WordPress in one sentence: WordPress is a system for managing a website, blog, or webshop without requiring (much) technical knowledge. Although WordPress runs on the PHP programming language, you don’t have to write a line of PHP to build a website with WordPress.

Because WordPress is so easy to use, it is the most common tool for creating websites nowadays. More than 30 percent of the entire internet uses WordPress!

WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

It is essential to understand the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. WordPress.org is the open-source CMS you can download for free and use on your hosting package. You can download a copy of WordPress completely free at WordPress.org. You can then do what