Overview
WordPress has grown to be the most popular self-hosted blogging software in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
WordPress is an open source project which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it (more than most commercial platforms). It also means you are free to use it for anything from your personal home page to a business web site without paying anyone a license fee.
WordPress Plugins
You can view available WordPress Plugins in the WordPress Plugins Directory. Here are some popular plugins you might want to check out:
- Sidebar Widgets - Sidebar Widgets allows you to move things (widgets) around, in and out of your sidebar.
- Automattic Stats - Automattic created its own stats system, to focus on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provide them in a clear and concise interface.
- WP-Cache - WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive. A2 Hostinghighly recommends this plugin for high traffic WordPress blogs.
WordPress Themes
Looking for WordPress themes? You can choose from hundreds of free WordPress themes at http://themes.wordpress.net!
WordPress Support
In just a few clicks, you'll be up and running with a Fantastico quick install of WordPress. If you'd like to install the latest bleeding edge release of WordPress, our web hosting packages are equipped with PHP 5 and MySQL 5 to meet your custom installation needs.
Once your site is powered by WordPress, you'll have joined the ranks of some of the most popular blogs on the web!
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