April 21, 2008 12:00 PM PDT

Webware 100 winner: WordPress and WordPress.com

by Webware staff

WordPress is a free blogging platform available to everyone. WordPress has two components, one is a free, Web-based blog-hosting service called WordPress.com. The other is WordPress.org, which provides users with software to run a more feature-rich version of the blogging tool on their own servers.

Both services offer a very easy way to blog, with administrative options to work collaboratively on one or several blogs using the same log-in. Bloggers can write their posts in a WYSIWYG editor, or switch over to a code view on the fly.

The service is best known for its community-created themes and plug-ins. A blog owner running WordPress on his or her own server can download these and deploy changes to the blog site instantly. WordPress.com users are limited to a smaller selection of these themes and features that come from the plug-ins, although many neat and useful Wordpress.org features make their way over to Wordpress.com just a few months after being released.

Winner: WordPress (WordPress.com)
Category: Publishing

Winners in this category:: .Mac; Blogger; Drupal; Flickr; FotoFlexer; Photobucket; Picasa Web Albums; Twitter; Wordpress & Wordpress.com; Worth 1000; Back to the Webware 100 Winners page

Topics:: Content and publishing

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