WordPress

Did you know that around 500 new websites are created using WordPress every day?! That’s no surprise, since its versatility means it can be adapted to virtually any website design, layout or function imaginable, while its ease-of-use makes it an ideal choice for those with no web development skills. With over 30,000 visual themes to choose from and more than 55,000 plugins available to install, the WordPress platform is a fully customizable solution.

Developers Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little founded WordPress as an offshoot of their discontinued blogging tool b2/cafelog. b2/cafelog was written in PHP for use with MySQL. WordPress serves pages and media to a website front end and is written in PHP and connects to a MySQL or MariaDB database. The database contains references to written content and media files that have been uploaded to your server. Additionally, user data is kept there to control article access and permissions.