What is WordPress?
WordPress is the highly popular open source content management system, that can be customised to your own web layout and design. It is built on PHP & MySQL and is free to download from WordPress.
What WordPress Can Do
WordPress started out as a blogging system, and evolved into a content management system, allowing users to add themes, widgets and plugins. You can add features and functionality to your WordPress themed site including:
- Integrating your own theme and template
- Search friendly links and URLs
- Blogging system
- Allowing comments and links
- Adding multimedia, photos and images
- Adding social media networking tools
- Contact forms and feedback
Minimum Requirements
Your ISP will need to have the following installed on your hosting platform as a minimum requirement: PHP5 and MySQL.

