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About Wordpress

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Getting Started with WordPress
Installation

* Before You Install
* New To WordPress - Where to Start
* Hosting WordPress
* Installing WordPress
* Upgrading WordPress
* Using FTP clients
* Changing File Permissions

* WordPress in Your Language
* Installing WordPress in Your Language
* Importing from Other Blogging Systems Into WordPress
* FAQ Installation
* WordPress Installation Techniques
* WordPress Installed For Free (volunteer supported)

Installation Troubleshooting and Help

* Frequently Asked Questions About Installing WordPress
* Troubleshooting Installation Problems
* Common Installation Problems
* Importing Posts and Comments from Another Blog Software

* I've Lost My Password
* I Can't Login
* Troubleshooting
* FAQ Troubleshooting

Posting in WordPress

* Working with WordPress
* Writing Posts
* Blog Design and Layout
* WordPress Media

* Advanced Topics
* Blog by Email
* Weblog Clients
* FAQ Themes, Layout and Design
* FAQ Advanced Topics

WordPress for Beginners

* Introduction to Blogging
* First Steps With WordPress
* WordPress Semantics
* WordPress Lessons
* New To WordPress - Where to Start
* WordPressMU and wordpress.com
* Writing Posts
* WordPress Blog Design and Layout
* HTML to XHTML

* Using WordPress Themes
* WordPress Theme List
* WordPress CSS Information and Techniques
* Creating Individual Pages
* Stepping Into Templates
* Stepping Into Template Tags
* Using Images
* WordPress Screenshots
* FAQ New To WordPress
* WordPress Quick Start Guide

File and Plugin Management

* Using the WordPress Built-in Editor or a text editor
* Plugins

* Managing Plugins
* Advanced Topics - Writing Plugins

WordPress Support Forum

* WordPress Support Forum
* Getting More WordPress Help
* Using the Support Forums

* WordPress Forum Tags
* FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

About WordPress • Getting Started with WordPress • Working with WordPress • Blog Design and Layout • Advanced Topics • Troubleshooting • Developer Documentation • Current Events

What is Wordpress?

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"WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope by focusing on web standards and user experience we can create a tool different from anything else out there."
WordPress About Page

WordPress is publishing software with a focus on ease of use, speed and a great user experience. WordPress is blessed with an active community, which is the heart of open source software.
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Features:

* 1 Features
* 2 License and Platform
* 3 Managing and Administering the Weblog
* 4 Publicizing Your Work
* 5 Customizing the Design
* 6 Creating Content
* 7 Archives and Search
* 8 Discussion and Comments
* 9 Creating and Managing a Blogroll

WordPress is a powerful personal publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible. We are proud to offer you a freely distributed, standards-compliant, fast, light and free personal publishing platform, with sensible default settings and features, and an extremely customizable core.

What is joomla?

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What is Joomla! ?
Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.

Joomla! in Action
Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. Here are just some of the ways people use our software:

Corporate websites or portals
Online commerce
Small business websites
Non-profit and organizational websites
Government applications
Corporate intranets and extranets
School and church websites
Personal or family homepages
Community-based portals
Magazines and newspapers
the possibilities are limitless…
Joomla! can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations.

Joomla! for End Users
The basic Joomla! package is designed to be easy to install, even for non-programmers. Most people have no trouble getting our software up and running, and there is plenty of support available for newbies. We have a growing, active community of more than 150,000 friendly users and developers on our forums eager to help.

Once Joomla! is installed and running, it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that makes your company or organization go. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla! site.

Via a simple, browser-based interface you will be able to easily add new press releases or news items, manage staff pages, job listings, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on your site. You can try our simple demo to get quick taste of what Joomla! is all about.

Taking Joomla! to the Next Level
Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing. But for many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and extensions. Here are just some examples of the hundreds of available extensions:

Dynamic form builders
Business or organizational directories
Document management
image and multimedia galleries
E-commerce and shopping cart engines
Forums and chat software
Calendars
Blogging software
Directory services
Email newsletters
Data collection and reporting tools
Banner advertising systems
Subscription services
and many, many more…
You can find more examples over at our growing Joomla! Extensions Directory. Prepare to be amazed at the amount of exciting work produced by our active developer community!

Joomla! for Developers
Many companies or organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the basic Joomla! package or in a freely available extension.

Thankfully, Joomla! offers a powerful application framework that makes it easy for developers to create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla! into virtually unlimited directions.

Using the core framework, developers can easily build:

Integrated e-commerce systems
Inventory control systems
Data reporting tools
Custom product catalogs
Complex business directories
Reservation systems
Communication tools
Application bridges
or any kind of application to suit a unique need…
If your company or organization hires a third party Joomla! developer or builds in-house software using the Joomla! framework, you are building on an open platform that does not tie you to any one developer or to a proprietary, closed application.

You can learn more about developing on the Joomla! framework over at our developer’s network. The beauty of Joomla! is that you can leverage our framework and user interface to deliver applications to your end users in a familiar, powerful environment.

So what’s the catch?
There is no catch. Joomla! is free, open, and available to all under the GPL license. We don’t claim to be perfect, and can’t promise to meet every requirement in the world. But for many web applications, our software is perfectly suited for the job. We are adding great new features with each release, and with the help and advice of our incredible user community we plan on delivering award-winning software for years to come.