CMS Platforms
The Content Platform You Own
WordPress
The content platform under most of the sites we build, and the one you actually own.
- Category
- CMS Platforms
- Stack role
- Core Platform
- Tool type
- Open Source
- Best suited for
- Content-Driven Business Sites
- Hosting model
- Self-Hosted
- Software price
- Free
- Made by
- The WordPress Community
- First released
- 2003
- License
- GPLv2 or later
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What is WordPress?
WordPress, in plain English.
WordPress is the software that runs a website behind the scenes. It's where your pages, posts, images and team logins live, and it's what lets you change a headline or add a page without calling a developer.
It started in 2003 as a simple blogging tool and grew into the most widely used way to build websites, from the shop down the street to major news sites. It's free and open source, so there's no license fee waiting for you every year, and thousands of developers around the world keep improving it.
On its own, WordPress is the foundation, not the finished house. The design, the layout and the features your business needs get built on top of it. That part is where we come in.
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Why we use WordPress.
We build on WordPress because it can become almost anything a business needs. Custom content, lead and booking tools, member areas, full online stores: if your business runs on it, there's a good chance we can build it here, shaped around how you actually work. And it's yours, so as the business grows, the site grows right along with it instead of holding you back.
Yours to Keep
Your site and everything in it belong to you, not to us or a software company.
Easy to Update
Change pages, posts and photos yourself in a familiar editor.
Grows With You
Add stores, member areas and new features without starting over.
Where we use it
Services built with WordPress.
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