WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

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3 months ago Avatar
Very very good blogging software

  by manasi

I have written several blogs now, I started on blogger and did not like their approach, I tried several others and did not find what I wanted. Along came Wordpress 2.3, I have been a fan ever since. Very usable, and easily customized, hundreds of different templates and things to add into your blog. Security can be done as there are some security conscious folks that have now developed some very nice widgets to help in the security aspect. ... [More] Easy to install, upgrade and change as needed. Excellent product, and yes it proves you can get something for 0 cost...except time. [Less]

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about 1 year ago Avatar
Fairly powerful; a bit too much work

    by Jack Repenning

I see a lot of very nice WordPress blogs. Mine was never so nice, as I found it to be considerably more work than I expected to do such things as swap in a new skin. The WP version upgrade process totally whipped me, though, and I am now no longer a WP user.

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