WordPress is a free, open source web based blog publishing application that can be used to build a website, where anyone can edit and update regularly. WordPress allows you to easily build a complex blog or web log on your site. WordPress is mainly written in PHP and supported by a MySQL Database.

Softgen Technologies our mission is to Democratize publishing and E-Commerce one website at a time many years ago, WordPress was primarily a tool to create a blog, rather than more traditional websites. That hasn’t been true for a long time, though. Nowadays, thanks to changes to the core code, as well as WordPress’ massive ecosystem of plugins and themes, you can create any type of website with WordPress.

WordPress is open-source software, so nowadays it’s made by a huge community of contributors. But if we were to trace WordPress origins back to its roots, its original creation was a collaboration between Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.
Since then, Matt Mullenweg has largely become the face of WordPress. And he’s also the founder of Automattic, which is the company behind the for-profit WordPress.com service.