WordPress Blogging

WordPress’ admin interface has been redesigned from the ground up to be as intuitive as possible.

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.

Managing and Administering the Weblog

Auto Installation Wordpress
WordPress is included in the AUSWEB Fantastico Autoinstallation pack and can be loaded on your web site with just a few mouse clicks. Read more

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 of Wordpress

Template Driven Blogging 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

Wordpress Themes
You can skin your weblog using readily available themes, or styles. You can also create and share your own themes. Read more

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. Read more

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.

Wordpress Categories
Organize your posts into categories, and sub-categories, and sub-sub categories... Read more

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

Blog 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.

Blog 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

WordPress can build communities around weblogs, through the use of comments, trackbacks and pingbacks, helping you keep in touch with the audience and fostering friendship.