About WordPress

WordPress is an Open Source and industry leading, state of the art Web Publishing Platform and Content Management System.

Over 22% of all websites online and 14% of Alexa’s Top 1 million websites now use WordPress to publish their websites including such notables as CNN, Yahoo, Harvard, NASA, FOX, The New York Times, Flickr, Rolling Stone, Meebo, C|net, Le Monde, Nancy Pelosi, Rosie O’Donnell, Stephen Colbert, Anousheh Ansari, Stanford, MIT, Second Life, Xerox, The US Post Office, Ford Motors, and small to medium sized businesses just like yours.

It is the most popular CMS and website publishing software in use on the Internet, and growing.

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Notable Features:

WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters are also included, providing standardized formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes). WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or article.

Plugins

One very popular feature of WordPress is its rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install; WordPress has a database of over 17,000 plugins with purposes ranging from SEO to adding widgets.

Widgets

Widgets offer users drag-and-drop sidebar content placement and implementation of many plugins’ extended capabilities. Users can rearrange widgets without editing PHP or HTML code.^[

Multi-user and multiple websites

Prior to WordPress 3.0, WordPress supported one website per installation, although multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables. WordPress Multi-User (WordPress MU, or just WPMU) was a fork of WordPress created to allow multiple websites to exist within one installation that is able to be administered by a centralized maintainer. WordPress MU makes it possible for those with a website to host their own blogging or website community, as well as control and moderate all the websites from a single dashboard. WordPress MU adds eight new data tables for each website.

WordPress MU merged with WordPress as part of the 3.0 release.

Mobile

Native applications exist for Android, iPhone/iPod Touch,iPad,Windows Phone 7, and BlackBerry which provide access to some of the features in the WordPress Admin panel and work with WordPress.com blogs and many WordPress.org websites.

For more information about WordPress, visit Wikipedia for an overview or WordPress.org for more detailed information, or simply give me a call at 707-706-3342.