WordPress

WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat's home page to a Fortune 500 intranet site without paying anyone a license fee. WordPress is completely customizable and can be used for almost anything. There is also a service called WordPress.com which lets you get started with a new and free WordPress-based blog in seconds, but varies in several ways and is less flexible than the WordPress you download and install yourself.

Features

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. That is the beauty of free software, free meaning not only price but also the freedom to have complete control over it.

* Pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily, so you could have a static page that you manage through WordPress.
* Links allows you to create, maintain, and update any number of blogrolls through your administration interface.
* WordPress comes with a full theme system which makes designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated webzine.
* Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site.
* 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.
* WordPress has a built-in user registration system that can allow people to register and maintain profiles.
* If you've dealt with systems that convert new lines to line breaks before you know why they have a bad name.
* WordPress' highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users.

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