One of the most popular programs for blogs and even content management is Wordpress. What makes Wordpress so popular is the ease of use, flexibility in set up and great support. Wordpress does an excellent job at providing documentation and options for everyday use.

WordPress is a blogging program that is gaining both popularity and converts. Consequently, there are many books available to help you learn how to best use WordPress, whether you have an account on the WordPress.com site or a site hosted elsewhere running WordPress.

I love WordPress. I love its user-friendliness and how easy you can get it installed and running within 5 mins. I love its extensibility and the plugin system that enable us to increase its functionality without any coding needed. However, despite all the love, WordPress is not perfect.

In the past few days, WordPress has become entangled in a debate about WordPress theme licensing. It was specifically centered around Thesis, one of the last notable proprietary theme holdouts. Chris Pearson, who develops and sells Thesis, refuses to license Thesis under the GNU General Public License that applies to WordPress and all WordPress-derived code.

WordPress yesterday released WordPress 2.2.1, which incorporates a number of small bug fixes and tweaks, along with some security issues that make this a required upgrade.

"I’ve been really enjoying working with Tim Bray, Pete Lacey, Elias Torres and Sam Ruby on improving AtomPub in WordPress. This work is in WordPress 2.3, which will be released later this month. You can try it out right now by downloading the beta. Sam has also started some documentation on AtomPub in WordPress at http://codex.wordpress.org/AtomPub..."

Packt is pleased to announce the release of WordPress Themes Design, which is a complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes. Written by Tessa Blakeley Silver, this book will be invaluable to WordPress users or visual designers who want to develop a WordPress theme.

So WordPress 2.5 is out, but what if you’ve never installed WordPress on your own local machine before and want to try it out? This FOSSwire Video tutorial shows you all the steps you need to take to install WordPress 2.5 on a LAMP system, in just over 5 minutes.

Wordpress is one of my favourite blog engines because it's easy and supports many plugins. Wordpress also available in multi-user mode which means a single Wordpress installation will cover many users with their own subdomain. This howto will show the steps taken to install Wordpress wpmu on a server running FreeBSD 7 stable.