Introduction

In case you're new to all this, an explanation might help.

What is WordPress?

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WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. The official successor of b2\cafelog (developed by Michel Valdrighi), WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.