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. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
* WordPress is one such advanced blogging tool and it provides a rich set of features. Through its Administration Panels, you can set options for the behavior and presentation of your weblog. Via these Administration Panels, you can easily compose a blog post, push a button, and be published on the Internet, instantly! WordPress goes to great pains to see that your blog posts look good, the text looks beautiful, and the html code it generates conforms to web standards.
* If you're just starting out, read Getting Started with WordPress, which contains information on how to get WordPress set up quickly and effectively, as well as information on performing basic tasks within WordPress, like creating new posts or editing existing ones.
Wordpress是一个Blog程序，用它你可以架设完全属于你自己的Blog。WordPress是最热门的开源个人信息发布系统(Blog)之一，基于PHP+MySQL构建。WordPress提供的功能包括：
1.文章发布、分类、归档。
2.提供文章、评论、分类等多种形式的RSS聚合。
3.提供链接的添加、归类功能。
4.支持评论的管理，垃圾信息过滤功能。
5.支持对样式CSS和PHP程序的直接编辑、修改。
6.在Blog系统外，方便的添加所需页面。
7.通过对各种参数进行设置，使你的Blog更具个性化。
8.静态html页面生成。
9.通过选择不同主题，方便地改变页面的显示效果。
10.通过添加插件，可提供多种特殊的功能。
11.支持Trackback和pingback。
12.支持针对某些其它blog软件、平台的导入功能。
13.支持多用户。
14.安装最简单。
15.Web标准支持非常好。
16.使用比较简单。
17.拥有大量的主题与插件。
英文版：http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.6.3.zip
中文版：http://wordpresschina.googlecode.com/files/wordpress.263.chs.zip
中文语言包：http://wordpresschina.googlecode.com/files/wordpress.263.chs.languages.only.zip