WordPress

" Express yourself. Start a blog. "

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.

WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it. It is built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL and it is free.

Features :
  • Dozens of theme available - User can change the look of their blog with over many themes. Each theme allows to customize sidebar using widgets, and several themes let you upload user's own photo or image for the header bar.
  • Categorize and Tag Your Posts - An easy system which allows user to categorize and tag their posts while write them. the system automatically create archives based on user categories and add them to global tag system, so user get extra traffic as other people interested in the same topics as you will find your post and leave comments on your blog.
  • Spell-check, Previews, Autosave, Words, Photos, Videos - A built-in rich text editor makes it easy to create great looking posts. User can upload thier photos or easily include images from other services like Flickr or Photobucket. User can even embed videos from places like YouTube or Google. An inline spell-checker that makes it easy to proof your posts. A preview feature that shows exactly what user post or page will look like before user publish them for the world to see.
  • Integrated Stats System - An integrated stats system which gives user up-to-the-minute stats on how many people are visiting their blog, where they’re coming from.
  • Automatic Spam Protection- An Akismet , it blocks spammers from leaving spam comments on user blog
  • Lots of Privacy Options, including Members-Only Blogs - A blog which is public but not included in search engines or public listings, or a private blog which only members can access.
  • Sidebar Widgets for Flickr, del.icio.us, Meebo, and More - User can add “widgets” to sidebar and rearrange them without touching any HTML code or messing up their blog. Just drag and drop the sidebar widgets around, and instantly user can have fun stuff in sidebar.
  • Manage Regular Pages, not Just Blog Posts - A feature called “pages” which allows user to easily create web pages.
  • Export - A complete XML export of all user posts and comments.
  • Multiple Blogs and Multiple Authors - User can have as many blogs as user want. User can have group blogs with multiple authors who are allowed to post or contribute.
  • No Rebuilding - Every change and edit make to user blog is INSTANT, there is no rebuilding or waiting. Same for comments.
  • Advertising - Show Google text ads on blog