What is WordPress?

“WordPress is the most used blog application powering millions of blogs and being used by tens of millions of people every day.”

WordPress is a powerful open source software that allows individuals to create websites and blogs. Within WordPress, there are options to customize not only the content of a website, but also its appearance and functionality. In fact, between themes and plugins, these components of WordPress offer almost limitless customization of how a website looks and operates.

For instance, some themes offer custom background images, color schemes, menus, and widgets. Plugins can also be used to increase security for your WordPress install, allow visitors to make profiles on your website, or include maps, buttons, and galleries of photographs on your website.

For more information, see

• Stanford Domains Support content on WordPress
• Our Vendor’s Support Community
• Stanford OnLine Learning at Lynda.com/Linkedln Learning. There are many “How To” video lessons on Linda.com. Linda.com is free to Stanford with your SUNetID.