A
blog is a frequently updated, personal website featuring
diary-type commentary and links to articles or other
Web sites. Blogs range from the personal to the political,
and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range
of subjects.
FEATURES:
No
rebuilding - Changes you make to your templates
or entries are reflected immediately on your site,
with no need for regenerating static pages.
Pages
- Pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily,
so for example you could have a static "About"
page that you manage through WordPress. For an idea
of how powerful this is, the entire WordPress.org
site could be run off WordPress alone. (We don't for
technical mirroring reasons.)
Links
-- 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.
Themes
- WordPress comes with a full theme system which
makes designing everything from the simplest blog
to the most complicated webzine a piece of cake, and
you can even have multiple themes with totally different
looks that you switch with a single click. Have a
new design every day.
Comments
- Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual
entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment
on their own site. You can enable or disable comments
on a per-post basis.
Spam
protection - 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, and there is also a rich array
of plugins that can take this functionality a step
further.
Full
user registration - WordPress has a built-in user
registration system that (if you choose) can allow
people to register and maintain profiles and leave
authenticated comments on your blog. You can optionally
close comments for non-registered users. There are
also plugins that hide posts from lower level users.
Password
Protected Posts - You can give passwords to individual
posts to hide them from the public. You can also have
private posts which are viewable only by their author.
Multiple
authors - WordPress' highly advanced user system
allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels
having different (and configurable) privileges with
regard to publishing, editing, options, and other
users.
Bookmarklets
- Cross-browser bookmarklets make it easy to publish
to your blog or add links to your blogroll with a
minimum of effort.
Ping
away - WordPress supports pinging Ping-O-Matic,
which means maximum exposure for your blog to search
engines.
