WordPress.org: a Blog Tool and Publishing Platform
Get it at:
Installing it:
The Five Minute Installation: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install
Features:
- Extremely flexible: lots of plugins, themes, etc.
- Built with PHP
- A downloadable package, which you’ll set up on your own hosted space
- You can find helpful VARs to host and set it up for you
- Expand beyond blogging to true content management
With a simple user interface, voluminous support forums and extensive documentation, most reasonably skilled web users can set it up themselves. Particularly note the search engine optimization (SEO) tools.
Themes:
Plugins:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
Examples:
http://compassrosecareers.com/
A local example on my laptop: (these links won’t work on the Internet, of course)
http://localhost/wordpress/wordpress/
http://localhost/wordpress/wordpress/wp-admin/