Among the realities of running a blog today is choosing among the veritable feast of software platforms to find the one that will perform the way you need it to. You want to be sure that the platform you choose has all the options youre looking for. WordPress is unique in that it offers three versions of its software. Each version is designed to meet the various needs of bloggers. The three different versions of WordPress are the following:

 ✓ The hosted version at WordPress.com. (Part II of this book focuses on this version.)

 ✓ The self-installed and self-hosted version available at WordPress.org. (Part III focuses on this version.)

 ✓ The multiuser version, WordPress MU, available at http:// mu.wordpress.org.

Certain features are available to you in every WordPress blog setup, whether youre using the software from WordPress.org, the hosted version at WordPress.com, or the multiuser version of WordPress MU.

These features include but arent limited to the following:

 

 ✓ Quick-and-easy installation and setup  ✓ Full-featured blogging capability, letting you publish content to the Web through an easy-to-use Web-based interface  ✓ Topical archiving of your posts, using categories  ✓ Monthly archiving of your posts, with the ability to provide a listing of

those archives for easy navigation through your site.  ✓ Comment and trackback tools  ✓ Automatic spam protection through Akismet  ✓ Built-in gallery integration for photos and imagesMedia Manager for video and audio files✓ Media Manager for video and audio files  ✓ Great community support  ✓ Unlimited number of static pages, letting you step out of the blog box

and into the sphere of running a fully functional Web site  ✓ RSS capability with RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, and Atom support  ✓ Tools for importing content from different blogging systems (such as

Blogger, Movable Type, and LiveJournal)
 

 

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