CMS Overview: WordPress.org

WordPress.org: a Blog Tool and Publishing Platform

Get it at:

http://wordpress.org/

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:

http://theme.wordpress.com/

Plugins:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

Examples:

http://ingridwentzel.com

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/