WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) around the Web. Over 60 million people have already chosen to build their website or blog with WordPress. WordPress was written in PHP and is available for free. Although the WordPress core and many themes and plugins are published under the GPL V2 license, some components may be charged according to their policies. Components that are not free of charge are often called premium or business components.
The first version of WordPress in 2003 was designed so you could create your own web blog. Nowadays, WordPress is a complete CMS that enables you to build a website, or even a web shop, with ease. WordPress has been based on PHP and MySQL and runs on many different platforms. There are differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. The WordPress.com blogging software is a host for your blog, while WordPress.org refers to blogging software. In this book, we've been talking about the WordPress.org blogging software...