Meet WordPress

The open source publishing platform of choice for millions of websites worldwide—from creators and small businesses to enterprises.

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Enhance your site-building with WordPress 6.7, featuring the new Twenty Twenty-Five theme. This release brings a ‘Zoom Out’ mode for high-level editing, enhanced media support, new design tools, and improved developer APIs.

WordPress started in 2003 when Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg created a fork of b2/cafelog. The need for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing system was clear even then. Today, WordPress is built on PHP and MySQL, and licensed under the GPLv2. It is also the platform of choice for over 43% of all sites across the web.

The WordPress open source project has evolved in progressive ways over time—supported by skilled, enthusiastic developers, designers, scientists, bloggers, and more. WordPress provides the opportunity for anyone to create and share, from handcrafted personal anecdotes to world-changing movements.

People with a limited tech experience can use it “out of the box”, and more tech-savvy folks can customize it in remarkable ways.