•  WordPress is the simplest, most popular way to create your own website or blog.
• In fact, WordPress powers over 43.3% of all the websites on the Internet.
• Yes – more than one in four websites that you visit are likely powered by WordPress.
• On a slightly more technical level, WordPress is an open-source content management system licensed under GPLv2, which means that anyone can use or modify the WordPress software for free.
• A content management system is basically a tool that makes it easy to manage important aspects of your website – like content – without needing to know anything about programming.
• The end result is that WordPress makes building a website accessible to anyone – even people who aren’t developers.
• With WordPress, you can create:

   1.Business website           

   2.eCommerce stores

   3.Blogs

   4.Portfolios

   5.Resumes

   6.Forums

   7.Social networks

   8.Membership sites…pretty much anything else you can dream up.

• WordPress is used by individuals, big businesses, and everyone in between!
• The official Whitehouse.gov website is powered by WordPress,Microsoft uses WordPress to power its official blog. It also uses WordPress to power blogs for specific products like Windows and Skype
• Ok, so over 43.3% of all the websites on the Internet are using WordPress, including well-known entities like the White House and Microsoft
• One of the biggest benefits of WordPress is that it’s free, open-source software.
• While you will need to pay a little bit for hosting, you will never have to pay just to use the WordPress software