WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
On behalf of the entire WordPress team, I’m proud and excited to announce the immediate availability of version 2.2 “Getz” for download. This version includes a number of new features, most notably Widgets integration, and over two hundred bug fixes. It’s named in honor of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz. In addition there were also dozens of UI and accessibility improvements, ranging from more concise wording around options and links to things like a view and preview link above the content box when you’re editing a post or page.
简单的说，Wordpress是一个BLOG程序，用它你可以架设完全属于你自己的BLOG。而Wordpress现在的应用又不仅仅只是在BLOG方面，因为其强大的扩展性，部分网站甚至已经开始使用Wordpress来架设，或者说这些BLOG你甚至都看不出它们只是BLOG而已了。
WordPress 是一套blog架设工具，是在国外与中文世界，许多人决定自行架设blog站台时的众多选择之一。注重美感、网页标准以及可用性的，最先进的个人出版平台。WordPress 使用Apache 网页服务器、PHP 动态网页语言以及 MySQL 数据库开发(也有支持 PostgreSQL 数据库的版本)，是使用 GNU 公共授权(GPL)授权的开放原始码自由软件。
Download: WordPress 2.31 正式版 (英文版)
Download: WordPress 2.31 正式版 (汉化版)