May 24, 2004
This is how sexy open source can be : WordPress 1.2
by Liza Sabater
And the clouds parted and a choir of angels harked : WordPress: About >> Features :) Matt Muhlenberg has a more detailed features breakdown at Photo Matt » Sing It From the Rafters. I am definitely going to twiddle with this baby.
Key Features
- Full standards compliance --- We have gone to great lengths to make sure every bit of WordPress generated code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C. This is important not only for interoperability with today's browser but also for forward compatibility with the tools of the next generation. Your web site is a beautiful thing, and you should demand nothing less. WordPress' markup is XHTML 1.1 compliant out of the box, however we send a less strict document type by default for additional compatibility.
- Cross-blog communication tools --- WordPress fully supports both the Trackback and Pingback standards, and we are committed to supporting future standards as they develop.
- No rebuilding --- Changes you make to your templates or entries are reflected immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages.
- WordPress Links -- Links allows you to create, maintain, and update any number of blogrolls through your administration interface. You have complete control over how the links are displayed, and there is tremendous flexibility to customize it to your needs. It also makes it easy to have a "Link Blog" where you highlight interesting sites you visit daily. For example of this see Binary Bonsai's Browsing .
- Comments --- Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. All content is thoroughly processed to make sure that malicious comments will not harm your web site You can enable or disable comments on a per-post basis.
- Easy installation and upgrades --- Installing WordPress and upgrading from previous versions and other software is a piece of cake. Try it and you'll wonder why all web software isn't this easy.
- Password Protected Posts --- You can give passwords to individual posts to hide them from the public. You can also have private posts which are viewable only by their author.
- Easy Importing --- We currently have importers for Movable Type, Textpattern, Greymatter, Blogger, and b2. Work on importers for Nucleus and pMachine are under way.
- XML-RPC interface --- WordPress currently supports an extended version of the Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and finally the MovableType API. You can even use clients designed for other platforms like Zempt.
- Typographical niceties --- WordPress uses the Texturize engine to intelligently convert plain ASCII into typographically correct XHTML entities. This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands. For information about the proper use of such entities see Peter Sheerin's article The Trouble With Em ’n En.
- Intelligent text formatting --- If you've dealt with systems that convert new lines to line breaks before you know why they have a bad name: if you have any sort of HTML they butcher it by putting tags after every new line indiscriminately, breaking your formatting and validation. Our function for this intelligently avoids places where you already have breaks and block-level HTML tags, so you can leave it on without worrying about it breaking your code.
- Multiple authors --- WordPress' highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users.
- Bookmarklets --- Cross-browser bookmarklets make it easy to publish to your blog or add links to your blogroll with a minimum of effort.
- Ping away --- WordPress supports pinging Weblogs.com or Blo.gs when you update.
Posted by Liza Sabater in Blogs, Open Source, Software, Technology, Web
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