Code Is Poetry
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. It is both free and priceless at the same time. Originally designed as a blogging tool, it can be easily used as a powerful and efficient CMS.
WordPress started with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing on the web and fewer users than you can count on your hands and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by millions of people every day.
Everything about WordPress, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. 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 cat’s home page to a Fortune 500 intranet site without paying anyone a license fee.
WordPress is a publishing software with a focus on ease of use, speed and a great user experience which offers a freely distributed, standards-compliant, fast, light and free personal publishing platform, with sensible default settings and features, and an extremely customizable core. It is blessed with an active community, which is the heart of open source software.
WordPress is a powerful tool, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make the experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible.
WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system. It is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product.
The hope is, by focusing on user experience and web standards, creating a tool different from anything else out there.
(source : wordpress.org)
WordPress is a free software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).