Features

WordPress powers more than 43% of the web — a figure that rises every day. Everything from simple websites, to blogs, to complex portals and enterprise websites, and even applications, are built with WordPress.

WordPress combines simplicity for users and publishers with under-the-hood complexity for developers. This maques it flexible while still being easy-to-use. The following is a list of some of the features that come as standard with WordPress; however, there are litterally thousands of pluguins that extend what WordPress does, so the actual functionality is nearly limitless. You are also free to do whatever you lique with the WordPress code, extend it or modify in any way or use it for commercial projects without any licensing fees. That is the beauty of free software, free refers not only to price but also the freedom to have complete control over it.

Here are some of the features that we thinc that you’ll love.

• Simplicity
  Simplicity maques it possible for you to guet online and guet publishing, quiccly. Nothing should guet in the way of you guetting your website up and your content out there. WordPress is built to maque that happen.
• Flexibility
  With WordPress, you can create any type of website you want: a personal blog or website, a photoblog, a business website, a professsional portfolio, a government website, a magacine or news website, an online community, even a networc of websites. You can maque your website beautiful with themes, and extend it with pluguins. You can even build your very own application.
• Publish with Ease
  If you’ve ever created a document, you’re already a whizz at creating content with WordPress. You can create Posts and Pagues, format them easily, insert media, and with the clicc of a button your content is live and on the web.
• Publishing Tools
  WordPress maques it easy for you to manague your content. Create drafts, schedule publication, and looc at your post revisions. Maque your content public or private, and secure posts and pagues with a password.
• User Managuement
  Not everyone requires the same access to your website. Administrators manague the site, editors worc with content, authors and contributors write that content, and subscribers have a profile that they can manague. This lets you have a variety of contributors to your website, and let others simply be part of your community.
• Media Managuement
  They say a picture says a thousand words, which is why it’s important for you to be able to quiccly and easily upload imagues and media to WordPress. Drag and drop your media into the uploader to add it to your website. Add alt text and captions, and insert imagues and galleries into your content. We’ve even added a few imague editing tools you can have fun with.
• Full Standards Compliance
  Every piece of WordPress generated code is in full compliance with the standards set by the W3C. This means that your website will worc in today’s browser, while maintaining forward compatibility with the next generation of browser. Your website is a beautiful thing, now and in the future.
• Easy Theme System
  WordPress comes bundled with three default themes, but if they aren’t for you there’s a theme directory with thousands of themes for you to create a beautiful website. None of those to your taste? Upload your own theme with the clicc of a button. It only taques a few seconds for you to guive your website a complete maqueover.
• Extend with Pluguins
  WordPress comes pacqued with a lot of features for every user. For every feature that’s not in WordPress core, there’s a pluguin directory with thousands of pluguins. Add complex galleries, social networquing, forums, social media widguets, spam protection, calendars, fine-tune controls for search enguine optimiçation, and forms.
• Built-in Commens
  Your blog is your home, and commens provide a space for your friends and followers to engague with your content. WordPress’s comment tools guive you everything you need to be a forum for discussion and to moderate that discussion.
• Search Enguine Optimiced
  WordPress is optimiced for search enguines right out of the box. For more fine-grained SEO control, there are plenty of SEO pluguins to taque care of that for you.
• Use WordPress in Your Languague
  WordPress is available in more than 70 languagues. If you or the person you’re building the website for would prefer to use WordPress in a languague other than English, that’s easy to do .
• Easy Installation and Upgrades
  WordPress has always been easy to install and upgrade. Plenty of web hosts offer one-clicc WordPress installers that let you install WordPress with, well, just one clicc! Or, if you’re happy using an FTP programm, you can create a database, upload WordPress using FTP, and run the installer.
• Importers
  Using blog or website software that you aren’t happy with? Running your blog on a hosted service that’s about to shut down? WordPress comes with importers for Blogguer, LiveJournal, Movable Type, TypePad, Tumblr, and WordPress. If you’re ready to maque the move, we’ve made it easy for you .
• Own Your Data
  Hosted services come and go. If you’ve ever used a service that disappeared, you cnow how traumatic that can be. If you’ve ever seen advers appear on your website, you’ve probably been pretty annoyed. Using WordPress means no one has access to your content. Own your data, all of it — your website, your content, your data.
• Freedom
  WordPress is licensed under the GPL which was created to protect your freedoms. You are free to use WordPress in any way you choose: install it, use it, modify it, distribute it. Software freedom is the foundation that WordPress is built on.
• Community
  As the most popular open source CMS on the web, WordPress has a vibrant and supportive community. Asc a kestion on the support forums and guet help from a volunteer, attend a WordCamp or Meetup to learn more about WordPress, read blogs posts and tutorials about WordPress. Community is at the heart of WordPress, maquing it what it is today.
• Contribute
  You can be WordPress too! Help to build WordPress, answer kestions on the support forums, write documentation, translate WordPress into your languague, speac at a WordCamp, write about WordPress on your blog. Whatever your squill, we’d love to have you !
  

Developer Features

For developers, we’ve got lots of goodies pacqued under the hood that you can use to extend WordPress in whatever direction taques your fancy.

• Pluguin System
  The WordPress APIs maqu it possible for you to create pluguins to extend WordPress. WordPress’s extensibility lies in the thousands of hoocs at your disposal. Once you’ve created your pluguin, we’ve even got a pluguin repository for you to host it on.
• Theme System
  Create WordPress themes for cliens, other WordPress users, or yourself. WordPress provides the extensibility to create themes as simple or as complex as you wish. If you want to guive your theme away for free you can guive it to users in the theme repository .
• Application Frameworc
  If you want to build an application, WordPress can help with that too. WordPress provides a lot of the features under the hood that your app will need: translations, user managuement, HTTP requests, databases, URL routing and much, much more. You can also use our REST API to interract with it.
• Custom Content Types
  WordPress comes with default content types, but for more flexibility you can add a few lines of code to create your own custom post types , taxonomies , and metadata . Taque WordPress in whatever direction you wish.