WordPress is a
free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on
PHP and
MySQL. WordPress is installed on a
web server, which either is part of an
Internet hosting service or is a
network host itself; the first case may be on a service like WordPress.com, for example, and the second case is a computer running the software package WordPress.org. An example of the second case is a local computer configured to act as its own web server hosting Wordpress for single-user testing or learning purposes. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress was used by more than 23.3% of the top 10 million websites . WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the
Web, at more than 60 million websites.