Why Use WordPress
WordPress (WP) is an advanced
blogging tool that provides a rich set of features.
WordPress offers good-looking themes and user-friendly
administration. Via WP Administration Panel
you can easily compose a blog post, push a button
and publish it on the Internet, instantly! WordPress
makes your blog posts look good, the text looks
beautiful, and the html code it generates conforms
to web standards.
WordPress features:
Managing and Administering
the Weblog
Auto Installation
WordPress is included in Indichosts.net Fantastico
Autoinstallation pack and can be loaded on your
web site with just a few mouse clicks.
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User management
WordPress allows you to set different permissions
to your blog users. This is done via the user-level
system.
Internationalization
and Localization
You can create a weblog that is localized to
your choice, and delivered in a language of
your choice.
Customizing the
Design
Template Driven Design
WordPress uses templates to generate the pages
dynamically. You can control the presentation
of content by editing the templates using the
Template Editor tool and the Template Tags
Themes
You can skin your weblog using readily available
themes, or styles. You can also create and share
your own themes.
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Plugins
Plugins extend the core functionality of your
weblog. A large number of user-developed plugins
are already available and can be used to do
virtually anything you want to, with your blog.
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Creating Content
File/picture uploading
You can upload pictures or files, and link to
them or display them in your articles. You have
the option of creating thumbnails of pictures
when you upload them.
Categories
Organize your posts into categories, and sub-categories,
and sub-sub categories...
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Emoticons
WordPress is smart enough to convert character
smileys, like ":)" into the graphical image
counterparts.
Formatting
Think of WordPress as something that makes your
words smoother, and your pages more appealing.
WordPress ships with text-formatting plugins
that clean up your content and add typographic
goodness to your articles.
Archives and Search
Archiving
After you've been blogging for an extended period
of time, what matters is how well your posts
are organized, and for that, WordPress provides
you with several ready made options to display
the archives of your blog, containing all the
old posts.
Searching
WordPress has a functional built-in search tool,
which allows visitors to your blog to search
for terms they are interested in, and the search-hilite
plugin that ships with WordPress can highlight
their search terms, so it is even easier for
them to find what they were searching for.
Discussion and Comments
WP
is not the YMCA, but it does help build communities
around weblogs, through the use of comments,
trackbacks and pingbacks, helping you keep in
touch with the audience and fostering friendship.
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