WordPress
 WordPress is a high
quality, open
source blog publishing application. The software was born out of a
desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system
built on PHP
and MySQL.
It is the official successor of b2
(also known as cafelog).
Wordpress is renowed for, and advertises, its
"five-minute installation" process, to highlight the fact that the
software is simple to
install. At the same time, WordPress has a very impressive set of
features.
The sofware has a rich plugin architecture which enables users
and
developers to extend
its functionality beyond the features that come provided. There
are many free WordPress themes available. Additionally, there are
plugins, which users can add to a WordPress blog to enhance
its
functionality, such as image galleries, statistics, anti-spam, etc.
WordPress has a built-in
search tool and archive. A comments tool is also included in the basic
installation package.
WordPress uses a homegrown comment-spam prevention system
called Akismet.
WordPress has a large supporting community.
WordPress 2.8.4
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Price
Free to download
Size
2.0MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Matt Mullenweg, Ryan Boren, Andrew Ozz, Peter
Westwood, Mark Jaquith and many contributors
Website
wordpress.org
System Requirements
PHP 4.3 or above
MySQL 4.0 or above
Webserver (Apache or Litespeed recommended) with mod_rewrite or
equivalent
Support
Sites:
WordPress
Codex, WordPress
Blog, WordPress
Planet, Forums,
Plugins
Directory, Themes
Selected
Reviews:
Mashable,
WordPress
Tips, all4yourwebsite
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Features include:
- Instant publishing (no rebuilding)
- Templating system, including widgets that can be rearranged
without editing PHP or HTML code
- Non-crufty URLs
- WordPress Pages allowing static and dynamic pages
- WordPress Links
- Themable
- Plugin support
- Password protected posts
- XML-RPC interface
- Workflow
- Typographical niceties - convert plain ASCII into
typographically correct XHTML entities
- Intelligent text formatting
- Multiple authors
- Bookmarklets
- Full user registration
- Comment pingback support with spam protection
- Import from Movable
Type, Textpattern,
Greymatter, Blogger
and b2
- Cross-blog communication tools
- Full standards compliance
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Last Updated Friday, August 14 2009 @ 09:35 PM EDT
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