WordPress

WordPress is highly customizable and provides you with the capability to deliver information by means of audio, video, and other media, including blogs and podcasts.

WordPress is an open-source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). WordPress utilizes PHP and MySQL.

A blog is a collection of short articles, essays, or loosely-formatted thoughts, usually written by one individual.
A podcast is a multimedia file (audio, video, or multimedia) distributed in a series of episodes. A customer can subscribe to your podcast, download it as soon as it is available, and then play it on their compatible devices (such as MP3 players).

Available Features

The following list provides an overview of some of the available features included with WordPress:

• Integrated theme system.
• Trackback support.
• Spam protection.
• Full user registration.
• Password protected blog postings.
• Support for importing content from previously-designed blogs (such as MoveableType).
• Common blog XML-RPC support.
• Workflow, post, and draft tools.
• Intelligent text formatting.
• Support for services (such as Ping-O-Matic) designed to update Web search engines.

As an open-source application, WordPress is not limited to this set of features. There are numerous extensions, or plug-ins developed by the community of WordPress users. Refer to the WordPress Web site for more information about standard WordPress features, extensions, or plug-ins.

Configuration and Usage

Virtual Host clients should contact support to request installation of WordPress.

The vinstall for WordPress runs a script which places the WordPress version 2.0.2 on your account. To install the software, run the following command from a Secure Shell (SSH) prompt:

# vinstall wordpress

NOTE: If you are upgrading WordPress from a previous installation, ignore any warnings you receive regarding your existing MySQL database. After the installation completes, use your preferred browser to access the following location:

http://YOURDOMAIN/WORDPRESS/install.php

Replace YOURDOMAIN and WORDPRESS with the domain and directory, respectively, in which you installed WordPress.