WordPress is a powerful personal publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible. 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.

* WordPress is one such advanced blogging tool and it provides a rich set of features. Through its Administration Panels, you can set options for the behavior and presentation of your weblog. Via these Administration Panels, you can easily compose a blog post, push a button, and be published on the Internet, instantly! WordPress goes to great pains to see that your blog posts look good, the text looks beautiful, and the html code it generates conforms to web standards.

* If you're just starting out, read Getting Started with WordPress, which contains information on how to get WordPress set up quickly and effectively, as well as information on performing basic tasks within WordPress, like creating new posts or editing existing ones.

Wordpress是一個Blog程序，用它你可以架設完全屬于你自己的Blog。WordPress是最熱門的開源個人信息發布系統(Blog)之一，基于PHP+MySQL構建。WordPress提供的功能包括：

1.文章發布、分類、歸檔。
2.提供文章、評論、分類等多種形式的RSS聚合。
3.提供鏈接的添加、歸類功能。
4.支持評論的管理，垃圾信息過濾功能。
5.支持對樣式CSS和PHP程序的直接編輯、修改。
6.在Blog系統外，方便的添加所需頁面。
7.通過對各種參數進行設置，使你的Blog更具個性化。
8.靜態html頁面生成。
9.通過選擇不同主題，方便地改變頁面的顯示效果。
10.通過添加插件，可提供多種特殊的功能。
11.支持Trackback和pingback。
12.支持針對某些其它blog軟件、平臺的導入功能。
13.支持多用戶。
14.安裝最簡單。
15.Web標準支持非常好。
16.使用比較簡單。
17.擁有大量的主題與插件。

英文版：http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.6.3.zip
中文版：http://wordpresschina.googlecode.com/files/wordpress.263.chs.zip
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