Digging into WordPress – the features
The following is a detailed list of many features of WordPress:
- Compliant with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards
- Unlimited categories and subcategories
- Unlimited tags
- Automatic syndication (RSS and Atom)
- Uses XML RPC interface for trackbacks and remote posting
- Allows posting via e-mail and mobile devices (there are apps available for all major mobile platforms, including iOS and Android)
- Supports plugins and themes
- Imports data from other blogs (Moveable Type, Textpattern, Greymatter, b2evolution, and Blogger)
- Easy to administer and blog without any previous experience
- Convenient, fully functional, and built-in search
- Instant and fast publishing of content—no rebuilding of pages required
- Multilanguage capable
- Allows password-protected content
- Comments manager and spam protection
- Built-in workflow (write, draft, review, and publish)
- Intelligent text formatting via a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor
- Multiuser and multiauthor support for user accounts
- Feature-rich Media Library for managing photos and other non-text content
- Social media integration capabilities
- Dynamic and scalable revision functionality with post (edit) locking
- Built-in embed functionality through shortcodes
- Advanced SEO (Search Engine Optimization) features through plugins and themes
