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WordPress

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic
personal publishing platform with a focus
on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
What a mouthful. WordPress is both free
and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use
when you want to work with your blogging
software, not fight it.

Features

We offer a feature set with WordPress on
par or better than any other software of its kind.
Also we are committed to making the latest
blogging technology available to our users
(such as Trackback) and taking it a step further
(such as with Pingback). You can rest assured
that with WordPress you will be on the cutting
edge of the technology available.

The following is a list of some of the features
that come standard with WordPress, however
there are literally hundreds of plugins that
extend what WordPress does, so the
actual functionality is nearly limitless.
You are also free to do whatever you like with
the WordPress code, extend it or modify in
any way or use it for commercial projects
without any licensing fees.

Key Features

• Full standards compliance --- We have gone
  to great lengths to make sure every bit of
  WordPress generated code is in full
  compliance with the standards of the W3C.
  This is important not only for interoperability
  with today's browser but also for forward
  compatibility with the tools of the next
  generation. Your web site is a beautiful
  thing, and you should demand nothing less.

• No rebuilding --- Changes you make to
  your templates or entries are reflected
  immediately on your site, with no need for
  regenerating static pages.

• WordPress Pages --- Pages allow you to
  manage non-blog content easily, so for
  example you could have a static "About"
   page that you manage through WordPress.
  For an idea of how powerful this is, the entire
  WordPress.org site could be run off
  WordPress alone. (We don't for technical
  mirroring reasons.)

• WordPress Links -- Links allows you to
  create, maintain, and update any number
  of blogrolls through your administration
  interface. This is much faster than calling
  an external blogroll manager.

• WordPress Themes --- WordPress comes
  with a full theme system which makes
  designing everything from the simplest blog
  to the most complicated webzine a piece of
  cake, and you can even have multiple themes
  with totally different looks that you switch with
  a single click. Have a new design every day.

• Cross-blog communication tools---
  WordPress fully supports both the Trackback
  and Pingback standards, and we are
  committed to supporting future standards
  as they develop.

• Comments --- Visitors to your site can
  leave comments on individual entries, and
  through Trackback or Pingback can comment
  on their own site. You can enable or
  disable comments on a per-post basis.

• Spam protection --- Out of the box
  WordPress comes with very robust tools
  such as an integrated blacklist and open
  proxy checker to manage and eliminate
  comment spam on your blog, and there is
  also a rich array of plugins that can take
  this functionality a step further.

• Full user registration --- WordPress has a
  built-in user registration system that (if you
  choose) can allow people to register and
  maintain profiles and leave authenticated
  comments on your blog. You can optionally
  close comments for non-registered users.
  There are also plugins that hide posts
  from lower level users.

• Password Protected Posts --- You can
  give passwords to individual posts to hide
  them from the public. You can also have
  private posts which are viewable only by
  their author.

• Easy installation and upgrades --- Installing
  WordPress and upgrading from previous
  versions and other software is a piece of
  cake. Try it and you'll wonder why all web
  software isn't this easy.

• Easy Importing --- We currently have
  importers for Movable Type, Textpattern,
  Greymatter, Blogger, and b2. Work on
  importers for Nucleus and pMachine are
  under way.

• XML-RPC interface --- WordPress
  currently supports an extended version of
  the Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and
  finally the MovableType API. You can even
  use clients designed for other platforms
  like Zempt.

• Workflow --- You can have types of users
  that can only post drafts, not publish to the
  front page.

• Typographical niceties --- WordPress
  uses the Texturize engine to intelligently
  convert plain ASCII into typographically
  correct XHTML entities. This includes
  quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and
  en dashes, multiplication symbols, and
  ampersands. For information about the
  proper use of such entities see Peter
  Sheerin's article The Trouble With Em ’n En.

• Intelligent text formatting --- If you've dealt
  with systems that convert new lines to line
  breaks before you know why they have a
  bad name: if you have any sort of HTML
  they butcher it by putting tags after every
  new line indiscriminately, breaking your
  formatting and validation. Our function
  for this intelligently avoids places where
  you already have breaks and block-level
  HTML tags, so you can leave it on without
  worrying about it breaking your code.

• Multiple authors --- WordPress' highly
  advanced user system allows up to 10
  levels of users, with different levels having
  different (and configurable) privileges with
  regard to publishing, editing, options, and
  other users.

• Bookmarklets --- Cross-browser bookmarklets
  make it easy to publish to your blog or add
  links to your blogroll with a minimum of effort.

• Ping away --- WordPress supports pinging
  Ping-O-Matic, which means maximum
  exposure for your blog to search engines.

There's much more, but these are the highlights.
If there's something that you really want, submit
a request on the support forums and there's a
good chance someone will whip it up for you.

Homepage: http://wordpress.org/

WordPress support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

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