Today we are looking at WordPress, a free and open source publishing platform that can be installed with a single click with the hosting packages at hosted web UK. After using WordPress for the past few years i can honestly say that i would defiantly recommend it to everyone. When i first logged in to the WordPress interface i was pleasantly surprised by the layout and easy navigation. I quickly realized that it does not matter what level of knowledge you have of the blogging scene, once installed WordPress is very simple to use. When writing posts or pages, the interface looks just like Microsoft Word which we all know how to use! The blog software is search engine friendly right out of the box, so as long as you write useful, up to date content you are likely to rank somewhere in Google for your chosen keywords without even doing any SEO work.
Features
WordPress has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations. WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; multiple author capability; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters that provide for proper formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes) are also included. 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 extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install.
(provided by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordpress)
BlogSecurity currently maintains a list of WordPress vulnerabilities,[12] though this list currently tracks vulnerabilities only up to version 2.3. Secunia keeps a more recently updated list[13].
In January 2007, many high-profile Search engine optimization (SEO) blogs, as well as many low-profile commercial blogs featuring AdSense, were targeted and attacked with a WordPress exploit.[14]
A separate vulnerability on one of the project site’s web servers allowed an attacker to introduce exploitable code in the form of a back door to some downloads of WordPress 2.1.1. The 2.1.2 release addressed this issue; an advisory released at the time advised all users to upgrade immediately.[15]
In May 2007, a study revealed that 98% of WordPress blogs being run were exploitable because they were running outdated and unsupported versions of the software.[16]
Vulnerabilities
Secunia maintains a full list of WordPress vulnerabilities.
Multi-blogging
WordPress supports one weblog per installation, although multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables.
WordPress Multi-User (WordPress MU, a.k.a. WPMU) is a fork of WordPress created to allow simultaneous blogs to exist within one installation. WordPress MU makes it possible for anyone with a website to host their own blogging community, control, and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard. WordPress MU adds eight new data tables for each blog.
Lyceum is another enterprise-edition of WordPress. Unlike WordPress MU, Lyceum stores all of its information in a set number of database tables. Notable communities that use Lyceum are TeachFor.Us[18] (Teach For America teachers’ blogs), BodyBlogs and the Hopkins Blogs.
In 2008 Andy Peatling joined Automattic to continue his work on BuddyPress – a plug-in extension of WPMU that is adding missing community features to WordPress[19].
(provided by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordpress)
