Overview WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. 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. WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.


Features

• Full standards compliance
• Changes you make to your templates or entries are reflected immediately on your site
• Pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily, so for example you could have a static "About" page that you manage through WordPress.
• 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 comes with a full theme system
• Cross-blog communication tools : Trackback and Pingback
• Comments
• Spam protection
• Full user registration
• Password Protected Posts
• Easy installation and upgrades
• Easy Importing for Movable Type, Textpattern, Greymatter, Blogger, and b2
• XML-RPC interface
• Workflow : You can have types of users that can only post drafts, not publish to the front page.
• Intelligent text formatting
• Multiple authors
• Bookmarklets
• Ping away : WordPress supports pinging Ping-O-Matic, which means maximum exposure for your blog to search engines.