WordPress

It seems that writing about an amazing blogging system is quite appropriate for a first post on my, well, blog. The one I chose is called WordPress. At first I was skeptical about it and a visit to WordPress.com did not convince me to try it. I thought that it is just another hosted service such as Blogger. My good friend enlightened me and pointed to WordPress.org where I learned what it truly is. Essentially, WordPress is an Open-Source PHP script that, together with MySQL, provides every feature a blogger might desire.

I fell in love with this system right away. This truly is what I have been looking for. And I am not the only one to think that. WordPress is used by more then 200 million websites worldwide and is consistently gaining more supporters. You may ask, "What makes it so much better then anything else out there?" Lets take a look.

Besides the standard features you would find in other blogging system, WordPress has support for Themes and Plugins that expend its looks and functionality. One of the cool things about those is that they can be installed directly from the control panel. You don't need to upload any files through ftp anymore. On top of that WordPress is so flexible that it is also commonly used as CMS or even a photo gallery.

Multiple tags and categories can be assigned to your posts. Those in return are displayed in an appropriate widget and help visitors find related or other interesting topics on your blog. Widgets are like building blocks that can be placed, organized, and customized to fit your own needs. Some of these include  Archives, Links, Pages, and even a Tag Cloud.

WordPress also features an amazing Media Library that allows you to easily upload your images. It even has a simple image editor build right in. This whole thing is simply stunning.

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