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.
If you've already discovered the joy of
WordPress, welcome back. We've got a few things to help you take your experience to the next level.
Our documentation can expand your mind, the support forum community can assist you when your blog's down, the nascent extend section has all the plugins and themes you could ever want, and finally the featured web host page can assist you in the search for better hosting.
If you feel like you've gotten a lot out of
WordPress, consider volunteering your talents for the project. There is something for almost anyone to help out with if you're motivated.
There are also some known issues: things that aren’t *quite* finished, but that weren’t worth holding up the beta release. They will be fixed before 3.1 is released for general use. Note that as things get fixed, the beta release will update nightly. What you should know:
* Fatal error: Call to a member function is_page() on a non-object in /wp-includes/query.PHP. is_page() may be any conditional tag. This issue occurs when a theme or plugin is doing something wrong. Some code is checking the value of a conditional tag before we actually set up the Query, which means they don’t work yet. In 3.0, they silently failed and always returned false. In 3.1 Beta 1, this is throwing a fatal error. This will be handled in the final release, so use this opportunity to fix your plugins. (#14729)
* All known issues slated for fixing before launch are listed in Trac. Please check this list to see if a bug is already on the list before reporting it.
