WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform as well as a content management system which offers easy to use blogging facilities to its users free of cost. Developed by Michel Valdrighi in 2003, WordPress is an open source system.
WordPress has a templating system, which includes themes that can be installed and switched between. It also has widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code. It allows users to make their blogs look like sophisticated websites and also enables to design websites. WordPress has a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
WordPress features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; multiple categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and articles.
Its automatic filters provide for proper formatting and styling of text in articles. WordPress has a rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install.
Wordpress blog has many features standing out over other blogging services on the internet. It allows you to post static content into pages, which appear on top of your blog and is easy to navigate. Content that changes frequently can be published through posts. Wordpress offers almost 75 themes for your blog which can be categorized as per number of columns, fixed and flexible width, colours and styles. You can change appearance of your blog further by selecting your customized header image.
WordPress offers a variety of widgets, which are a portable chunk of code that can be installed in the blog and provide additional facilities like chat, news-feeds, maps and so on.
WordPress allows multi-blogging and group blogging. WordPress (multi-user) MU makes it possible for anyone with a website to host their own blogging community, control, and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard. WordPress MU adds eight new data tables for each blog. In 2008, WordPress has also released its native application for iPhone and iPod Touch.
One can say that WordPress has redefined blogging experience.
