WORDPRESS.ORG

About WordPress.org

On this site you can download and install a software script called WordPress. To do this you need a web host who meets the minimum requirements and a little time. WordPress is completely customizable and can be used for almost anything. There is also a service called WordPress.com which lets you get started with a new and free WordPress-based blog in seconds, but varies in several ways and is less flexible than the WordPress you download and install yourself.
  
History
WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPLv2 (or later). It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope by focusing on user experience and web standards we can create a tool different from anything else out there.

Advantages Of Wordpress.Org

Own domain name
WordPress is a well known blogging platform for self hosted blog. Self hosting means any user can choose any hosting provider and install a software WordPress.org on it. User can choose his own custom domain name instead of sub-domain name; such as www.yourname.com instead of www.yourname.blogspot.com.

Plugins
Plugins are a backbone of WordPress. By make use of plugins, users can customize performance of blog according to need. Some famous plugins are All in one SEO, Akismet, Robots meta, SEO friendly images plugin.

Themes
Themes decide the look and navigation of the blog. WordPress offers lots of customization options of theme. There are lots and lots of themes available for WordPress. Users can download the themes according tocategory and need.

Developers
The most interesting and useful part of  WordPress are its developers. There is largest number of developers available for WordPress in the world. WordPress provides lots of options for developers to develop plugins, themes and software.

Designs
User can play with CSS files to get their own designs according to the need.

Its totally free
Free word always smoothen our ears. Since WordPress is an open source bogging platform so it is totally free of cost.

Easy to use
The most vibrant feature of WordPress is its ease to use. Anyone can become expert while playing with the software. It comes with an inbuilt dashboard where users can play with post, category, theme, tools, widget, setting etc.

SEO friendly
Search engines love WordPress. WordPress comes with self ping feature. This feature sends ping to different search engines while every time the blog updated. Also there are lots of plugins available for WordPress which can extent WordPress reach.

Achievements

In 2007 WordPress won a Packt Open Source CMS Award.
In 2009 WordPress won the best Open Source CMS Award.

Requirements to install Wordpress

* PHP version 4.3 or greater
* MySQL version 4.1.2 or greater