With fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes, WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing. And since then it has flowered to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world. There are hundreds of people around the world working on WordPress which makes it an Open Source project.

With just a web host who meets the minimum requirements and a little time, you can download and install the software script, WordPress from this site. You can use WordPress for almost anything and it is completely customizable. 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.

Born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on MySQL and PHP and licensed under the GPL, WordPress is the official successor of b2/cafelog. Tracing its roots and development to2001, WordPress is a mature and stable product, with new freshness added everytime.

2005 was a very exciting year for WordPress, as it saw the release of our 1.5 version which was downloaded over 900,000 times, the start of hosted service WordPress.com to expand WP's reach, the founding of Automattic by several core members of the WP team, and finally the release of version 2.0.

Tarun Aggarwal, MagicNLogic