How to use wordpress? And what is it for?

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, which runs on a web hosting service. Features include a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by more than18.9% of the top10 million websites as of August2013. WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than60 million websites.

It was first released on May27,2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, as a fork of b2/cafelog. As of November26,2013, version3.7 had been downloaded nearly10 million times.

We Cant Describe you here how to use wordpress please refer this wordpress official article http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/

Long story short it's a blogging platform that offers you the option to host your blog on your own servers or host it at their servers (similar to blogger.com) the natuer of the service is a bit compicated more than blogger which is much simpler to use but wordpress is still better for customization and add-ons.

1. Lets start with, What is it for?

• Wordprss.com and WordPress.org is a open source software.
• WordPress.org software can be uploaded to the web site server, this means you have total control of every element of the site.
• If you get a Web designer or web developer to upload software to your server they can then add in extra software to suit your business needs.
• You can build extremely attractive creative sites with WordPress.org
• It has a very effective search engine optimisation element to it and preforms well with search engines browsers.
• It is easy to use and can be updated and changed to grow with your Business.

2. How to use Wordpress?

Personaly I recommend to rtm (Read The Manual) before even to Googling for tutorial or even books, so here's Where to Start .If that wasn't good enough let me know and I'll send you bunch of links for useful documentation and even more I can send you an empty documented template to start with even with and I can even help to build (I mean it).P.S. Am not trying to market myself I just wanna help.Best of luck and have a nice time.Mahmoud

All given anwers are correct. Wordpress is very famous and popular among people due its simplicity and usability. It has many powerful features but it has2 main and very popular features and they are:

• Themes
• Plugins

Wordpress is designed for blogging but it is being used in very large websites due to its2 main popular features. There are many free Themes and Plugins available in the market and people may build their websites very easily using them.

You may learn more about wordpress from http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

WordPress is a CMS (Content Management System: Content Management System) that allows you to write content on the topic or topics of your choice and make them WordPress is a PHP application that is intended for use on the Web. To use WordPress requires a HTTP server configured to interpret the PHP language and Management System Relational Data Base (RDBMS) MySQL. Here is a diagram depicting each application in the treatment received by a web server hosting a WordPress site is HTTP request: