WordPress is the simplest, most popular way to create a website or blog. In fact, WordPress powers a third of all the websites on the Internet. Yes – more than one in four websites that you visit are likely powered by WordPress.

On a technical level, WordPress is an open-source content management  system (CMS).   Thas means that anyone can use or modify the WordPress software for free. A CMS is basically a tool that makes it easy to manage important aspects of your website – like content – without needing to know anything about programming.