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There are more than one thousand themes loaded directly into the WordPress website, from which you can choose, and you are not limited to just the themes loaded into the WordPress website.

Fully Functional

There are thousand WordPress Plugins on the WordPress.org website, and thousands more that are not in the WordPress database. If you find a Plugin you want, just download, unzip, and upload it to the appropriate Plugin directory on your blog. After you have uploaded the Plugin, simply go to the Admin area of your Blog to activate the software.

Open Source Freedom

WordPress's source code is visible to everyone who wants to look at it. On top of that, WordPress has included comprehensive documentation and a range of functions to help programmers work with WordPress.

Easy Self-Updating

WordPress will notify you if upgrades are available for the basic WordPress operating system or your chosen Plugins. When upgrades become available, you will be notified, and often you only need to click a link to automatically install the upgrades and updates.

WordPress is a blogging platform that allows you to have a pre-built website for free that will allow you to focus on the more important items like content.

Full standards compliance

Every bit of WordPress generated code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C. This is important not only for interoperability with today’s browser but also for forward compatibility with the tools of the next generation.

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.

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 easy, 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.

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.

Easy installation and upgrades

Installing WordPress and upgrading from previous versions and other software is a piece of cake. Try it and you'll wonder why all web software isn't this easy.

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.

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.