WordPress is an open source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it - which is more than most commercial platforms.

Started in 2003, WordPress has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites (as blogs and cms) and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

Key features include:

• Simple and easy to use
• Customizable template
• Loads of plugins to extent your site
• Pages, Posts, Links
• Comments
• Spam protection
• Full user registration
• Password protected posts
• so much more...

WordPress is completely customizable and can be used for almost anything from blogs to websites, portfolios, and photo-galleries. There are literally hundreds of plug-ins that extend what WordPress does, so the actual functionality is nearly limitless!

For more information on WordPress, please visit the website at www.wordpress.org