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Key Features:
- Easy Importing
- Anti-Spam Protection
- Intelligent Text Formatting
- Free WordPress Themes
- User Access Controls
- User Comments
- Search Engine Friendly
Detailed Specs:
- Full standards compliance
- The good folks that created WordPress have gone to great lengths to
make sure every bit of WordPress-generate-code is in full compliance
with the standards of the W3C. This is important not only for
interoperability with today's browsers but also for forward
compatibility with tools of the next generation. Your web site is a
beautiful thing, and you should demand nothing less.
- 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.
- No rebuilding
- Changes you make to your templates or entries are reflected
immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages.
- WordPress 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.)
- WordPress 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.
- WordPress 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.
- Cross-blog Communication Tools
- WordPress fully supports both the Trackback and Pingback standards,
and we are committed to supporting future standards as they develop.
- 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.
- 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.
- Easy Importing
- We currently have importers for Movable Type, Textpattern,
Greymatter, Blogger, and b2. Work on importers for Nucleus and pMachine
are under way.
- XML-RPC Interface
- WordPress currently supports an extended version of the Blogger
API, MetaWeblog API, and finally the MovableType API. You can even use
clients designed for other platforms like Zempt.
- Workflow
- You can have types of users that can only post drafts, not publish to the front page.
- Typographical Niceties
- WordPress uses the Texturize engine to intelligently convert plain
ASCII into typographically correct XHTML entities. This includes
quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication
symbols, and ampersands. For information about the proper use of such
entities see Peter Sheerin's article The Trouble With Em ’n En.
- Intelligent Text Formatting
- If you've dealt with systems that convert new lines to line breaks
before you know why they have a bad name: if you have any sort of HTML
they butcher it by putting tags after every new line indiscriminately,
breaking your formatting and validation. Our function for this
intelligently avoids places where you already have breaks and
block-level HTML tags, so you can leave it on without worrying about it
breaking your code.
- 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.
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