What Is WordPress?

“WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope by focusing on web standards and user experience we can create a tool different from anything else out there.”

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Why WordPress-

In our opinion, WordPress is one of if not the best open source Content Management Systems (CMS)  available.  You may have noticed that I revered to WP as a CMS, that’s because WP with its hundreds of active developers and plug-in library has evolved into more of a CMS than just a blogging platform.

WordPress.org, WordPress.com, or ?

WordPress.com: This is the free site place.  Though you may feel like you need to read no further, here is the downside.  Yes, the price is right, but you may find that you are very limited on the themes that you have available along with the plug-ins.  If what they provide works  for you then you will have a very low maintenance site.  The upside with the dot com sites is they always have the latest updates and you will have little to do but add content.

WordPress.org: WordPress.Org is the open source side of the project.  This is for people who want to self host on their own servers or a shared hosting environment.  The upside is that you will have full control over your site, can add whatever theme or plug-in you would like.  Where some shy away is that they don’t want to invest the time required to learn the program to successfully have a solid web presence.

This is the option we have choosen due to the flexibility it provides, but then this is our business.

TruPressNet.com: What we are able to offer is the best of both worlds.  We will install and maintain your site to be sure it has the latest updates, plus we can offer you the flexibility you may need when it comes to custom themes and plug-ins.