WordPress (WP) is an advanced FREE blogging tool that provides a rich set of features. It can be easily installed from the Fantastico autoinstaller in the cPanel of your account. SiteGround also offers FREE professional installation of WordPress on your site.

WordPress is very powerful - Via the WordPress Administration Panel you can easily write a post for your blog, push a button and publish it online immediately! Posts can be organized in categories and you can upload pictures (thumbnail format is supported) or files to display in your articles. You can set different permissions to your blog users. WordPress has inbuilt search functionality. If you would like to see how WordPress works, here you get WordPress pre-installed and activated in less than 15 min.

WordPress is easily customizable - You can control the appearance of the blog content by editing the WordPress template installed on your blog. To do that just use the easy Template Editor tool and the Template Tags. It is also very simple to change the WP themes. There is a great variety of freely distributed WP themes which you can quickly download and install.

WordPress can extend its functionality - WP can have plugins added to its system. A large number of plugins are developed by the community and are freely available. Thanks to these plugins, you can do anything you like with your blog and make a powerful website.

Beeing easy to use and highly customizable WordPress is mostly appreciated as a personal and family website software. Nevertheless Wordpress is a powerful and comprehensive tool as well and is utilized by some companies for their company blog.