{"id":21,"date":"2012-10-03T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/help\/?p=21"},"modified":"2012-10-03T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:00:06","slug":"what-is-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/2012\/10\/03\/what-is-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"What is WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is a web\u00a0application\u00a0that allows you to create quick and easy news items, blog posts, event pages and much more.<\/p>\n<p>It was originally developed as a blogging tool, but\u00a0because\u00a0it is <a href=\"http:\/\/opensource.org\/osd.html\" target=\"_blank\">open source<\/a>\u00a0a large\u00a0developer\u00a0community allowed wordpress to evolve with the addition of plugins and different website themes. It is estimated that 1 in 4 websites are\u00a0powered\u00a0by wordpress, and there are currently over 55 million &#8216;official&#8217; wordpress sites.<\/p>\n<p>You can find further information below.<\/p>\n<p><em>Official WordPress Site<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Technical Information and Open Source<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.wordpress.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>WordPress Stats<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wordpress.com\/stats\/\">http:\/\/en.wordpress.com\/stats\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is a web\u00a0application\u00a0that allows you to create quick and easy news items, blog posts, event pages and much more. It was originally developed as a blogging tool, but\u00a0because\u00a0it is open source\u00a0a large\u00a0developer\u00a0community allowed wordpress to evolve with the addition of plugins and different website themes. It is estimated that 1 in 4 websites are\u00a0powered\u00a0by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}