WordPress - Blog Publishing CMS

WordPress is a Blog publishing Content Management System (CMS) integrated with a powerful templating system, which also includes "Widgets", that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML. Wordpress features customisable themes that can be downloaded, installed and switched between within the CMS. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced code and customizations. WordPress also features integrated link management; a -friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; multiple author capabilities; and support for of posts and articles. WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or article. Finally, WordPress has a rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to share and extend WordPress' functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install.