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WordPress is open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

Beautiful designs, powerful features, and the freedom to build anything you want. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

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38% of the web uses WordPress, from hobby blogs to the biggest news sites online.

Powerful Features

Limitless possibilities. What will you create?

Extend WordPress with over 55,000 plugins to help your website meet your needs. Add an online store, galleries, mailing lists, forums, analytics, and much more.

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Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — join the family.

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WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine”

Version 5.5 "Eckstine" of WordPress is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. With this release, your site gets new power in three major areas: speed (lazy-loading images), search (sitemaps included by default), and security (auto-updates for plugins and themes), along with many new features and improvements to the block editor.

It’s Easy As…

  1. Find a trusted web host and maybe support WordPress at the same time.
  2. Download & install WordPress with our famous 5-minute installation. Publishing has never been easier.
  3. Spend some time reading our documentation, get to know WordPress better every day and start helping others, too.