1. Emily Puleston

2. Wordpress is a free blogging website It is the #1 Content Management System site today First released in May, 2003 Has been downloaded over 70 million times 120 languages available What is Wordpress?

3. Not Just for Playing Around

4. Free Easy, thousands of online tutorials Customizable High search results (Search Engine Optimization) Do it yourself Tons of features Can make money Benefits

5. Features Themes- almost 2,000 themes and allows html coding Plug-ins/ Widgets- 18,000 plug-ins Multi User- multiple blogs under 1 user Widgets- change appearance and function Mobile- mobile app Tags- tag information

6. How This Relates to Writing… 50,000 new blogs are created daily Wordpress alone has 500,000 new posts daily and 400,000 new comments Prior to blog sites you needed to know html code to get your message online People are writing online more frequently and linking all their forms of writing together (RSS feeds…) Writing is more easily accessible for people to read when it is online Users can comment on posts and have their posts commented on

7. Citations 1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPresshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress 2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_systemhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system 3.http://wordpresscms.ithemes.com/basics/5-benefits-of-using-wordpress-as- a-cms/http://wordpresscms.ithemes.com/basics/5-benefits-of-using-wordpress-as- a-cms/ 4.http://www.wpoptimus.com/276/wordads-make-money-wordpress-com- blogs/http://www.wpoptimus.com/276/wordads-make-money-wordpress-com- blogs/