WordPress is the website software.

CiviPress Websites are WordPress websites with CiviCRM installed.  WordPress is the web’s leading Content Management System (CMS) and is used by 20% of the top 10 million websites with more than 60 million websites total.

There are many reasons to choose WordPress including:

• it’s free and open source
• WordPress is easy to update, in fact, it can be automated
• WordPress is ubiquitous and therefore, so is help
• WordPress makes mobile and responsive easy, in fact, it’s kind of built in now
• Themes, themes everywhere.  Picking a look and feel for your website is a snap
• Users have roles and roles limit, and permit, access.  Give your users just the right amount of access, no more, no less.
• SEO is built in and easy and there are tons of resources out there
• WordPress is really easy, from posting, to managing to building