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When approaching WordPress, the first noticeable aspect is the easy-friendliness of this tool. Once logged in as the administrator, the dashboard will provide you with a general overview of your site: actions such as writing a new post or managing comments and categories are just one click away thanks to a convenient top navigational sidebar. From the dashboard you can also have a look at the most recent data such as latest comments, incoming links, WordPress news and hot plugins.

When writing a new post, you can choose whether to use the built-in wysiwyg editor or to edit HTML directly in case you want to add specific character codes, JavaScript or even PHP, although the need to use the HTML mode is beign reduced by the availability of free plugins that facilitate the process of automatically placing AdSense or any other kind of code into your posts.

An additional tab in the navigational sidebar gives you a quick access to the design zone, where you can preview and switch to new themes, again, just with a single click. If permissions are set correctly on your FTP account, you can even edit and preview your theme directly from this section, which allows you to speed up the design process considerably.

The ease of use of this software does not however mean limited features: on the contrary, WordPress is an excellent publishing tool with a complex set of features to manage different posting and editing privileges, making it easy to coordinate the work of webmasters, editors and article writers at the same time with no particular effort. Thanks to a feature introduced in the 2.6 version, you can even compare different saved versions of a blog post and revert any previous changes.

Much of the flexibility and feature richness of WordPress comes however from its plugin architecture, which allows even those with little to none programming skills to extend the platform appearance and functionality.

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