{"id":141775,"date":"2019-07-11T08:55:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T15:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharethis.com\/?page_id=141775"},"modified":"2025-11-14T07:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:17:29","slug":"wordpress-share-button","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sharethis.com\/social-media-buttons\/wordpress-share-button\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Share Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-stcustom-staccordion st-accordion-item undefined\"><a>What is the WordPress share button?<\/a><div class=\"st-accordion-content\">\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sharethis.com\/social-media-buttons\/wordpress-share-button\/\">WordPress share button<\/a>\u00a0lets users with a WordPress account quickly share to WordPress to share your content to their blog. When someone clicks the button, it will open up WordPress and automatically create a new blog post that contains the title of your post (the title will be a link to your original post), plus an excerpt from it, and an image if appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that the WordPress Share Button works with blogs hosted by WordPress.com: if your visitor has a self-hosted blog that runs the WordPress.org software, the button can\u2019t log them into that (as their username and password are specific to their domain, rather than being used on WordPress.com itself).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stcustom-staccordion st-accordion-item undefined\"><a>What is WordPress and how does it work?<\/a><div class=\"st-accordion-content\">\n<p>WordPress is the world\u2019s most popular content management system (CMS): it\u2019s a website creation platform. While WordPress was originally created for blogging, it\u2019s now used by a huge range of different companies and individuals, not just those running blogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Something that can be confusing is that there are in fact two distinct strands of WordPress.\u00a0<\/strong>One is \u201chosted WordPress\u201d from WordPress.com, the commercial wing of WordPress. This is a blogging platform that\u2019s similar to sites like Blogger: anyone can sign up and create a blog for free (though WordPress has a number of paid plans).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other type of WordPress is \u201cself-hosted WordPress\u201d from\u00a0<em>WordPress.org.<\/em>\u00a0This version of WordPress is open-source software that can be freely used (and modified) by anyone, without the restrictions of WordPress.com. However, users need to purchase their own domain name and web hosting in order to use self-hosted WordPress.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stcustom-staccordion st-accordion-item undefined\"><a>Is WordPress a social network?<\/a><div class=\"st-accordion-content\">\n<p><strong>WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that allows people to create and manage websites.<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s not a social network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has some features in common with social networks, however: WordPress blogs normally have comments enabled (though the owner of the blog can disable them), and WordPress.com blogs can be \u201cfollowed\u201d through a WordPress.com account. 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