This free software is actively maintained by a community of all-star developers, and all of the top-rated hosts make it incredibly easy to get a WordPress site up and running. It’s also by far the most popular of all three platforms — powering 26.6% of websites in existence as of April 2016. Why has WordPress captured the content-managing hearts of so many site owners, you ask? What Is WordPress? To quote a friend of mine, “WordPress is a blog that has been bastardized into a CMS.” At its heart, the WP platform is made for blogging, but all sorts of extensions and plugins allow you to turn it into whatever you need (an online store, a portfolio, a gallery, etc.). NOTE: There’s common confusion between WordPress.org and WordPress.com: