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(1) A very popular blog service from Automattic Inc. that lets anyone write and publish a blog. The www.wordpress.com site is the blog service, while www.wordpress.org provides the Wordpress...
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Definition: WordPress
(1) A very popular blog service from Automattic Inc. that lets anyone write and publish a blog. The www.wordpress.com site is the blog service, while www.wordpress.org provides the Wordpress software for installation on a company's own server (definition #2).
(2) A very popular open source blog publishing program that is installed on the user's Web server. Introduced in 2003, WordPress is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database. Noted for its rich features, WordPress "Themes" provide numerous templates from which to choose a look and feel. In addition, the site can be enhanced with dialogs such as user registration, user feedback and password protection. WordPress also enables non-blog content to be included, and it imports other blog publishing formats. For more information, visit www.wordpress.org. See blog service and blog.
WordPress Themes
Many site design choices are available for WordPress users, who can actually change their theme as often as they wish.
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