WordPress is a very useful piece of software that you can use to build a great website or a blog with an infinite variety of tools and ideas. It is free to use and can be set up by anyone who can follow directions.
The software itself if actually built by hundreds of volunteers and there are thousands of plugins that makes it easy to transform your site into just about anything that you wish it to be. Currently there are over 60 million people who use WordPress as their chosen platform to tell their story to the world.
There are literally thousands of themes that you may use with WordPress, and you can change themes during the process of making your blog or website without having to alter the information. When you get WordPress set up, you will find that the choices of the themes are so vast, that it is usually difficult to make a decision as to what to use.
WordPress has a handy 5 minute installation guide that walks you through the installation, step-by-step. You should buy a domain name for your project, whether it will be a blog or a website, and then you can link your domain name to your project. If you run into problems along the way, there is ample support from forums, that are manned by experienced WordPress experts who volunteer their time to help out.
The nice thing about WordPress is that it can be as simple as you like, or it can be as complex and dynamic as you wish. When you are just starting out, you will probably take baby steps, but as you move along you will want to add more plugins, where your viewers will be able to be more interactive.
WordPress is now available for mobile use, and it can be tied to a desktop application so that if someone posts to your blog, you will be notified on your mobile device so you can respond. This takes all of the worry out of keeping up to date on a blog if you are on the go.
Once you catch on to the basics of WordPress, you will begin to start to enjoy yourself with its flexibility and refreshing variables. It is robust enough to handle the most involved websites to the simplicity of a plain blog about one subject. Give it a try and your will be pleased with your self for taking the step.
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