First and foremost if you are asking yourself, “What is WordPress?”, quite simply it is a tool that can be used to build a website or a blog. There are a number of ways to build websites or blogs, using WordPress is just one of many, however it is by far and away the best tool for the job.

WordPress is an open source software application that initially gained notoriety as a blogging tool however in recent years it has grown to become a powerful Content Management System – often shortened to CMS.