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WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
Home: http://wordpress.org/
Installing WordPress
WordPress is well known for its ease of installation.
Step 1: Download and Extract
*Download and unzip the WordPress package from http://wordpress.org/download/
* If you have shell access to your web serve:
** wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
** Then unzip the package using:
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz

Step 2: Create the Database and a User
Step 3: Set up wp-config.php
DB_NAME
The name of the database you created for WordPress in Step 2 .
DB_USER
The username you created for WordPress in Step 2.
DB_PASSWORD
The password you chose for the WordPress username in Step 2.
DB_HOST
The hostname you determined in Step 2 (usually localhost, but not always; see some possible DB_HOST values).
DB_CHARSET
The database character set, normally should not be changed (see Editing wp-config.php).
DB_COLLATE
The database collation should normally be left blank (see Editing wp-config.php).

Save the wp-config.php file.

Step 4: Upload the files

Step 5: Run the Install Script
Finishing installation

More info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

Managing Plugins( Search and install here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ )
+ All in One SEO Pack :
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/ Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

+ Email Users:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/email-users/
A plugin for wordpress which allows you to send an email to the registered blog users. Users can send personal emails to each other. Power users can email groups of users and even notify group of users of posts.

+ Exec-PHP:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exec-php/
The Exec-PHP plugin executes PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets.

+ FeedBurner FeedSmith:
http://wpgpl.com/wordpress-plugins/feedburner-feedsmith-wordpress-plugin/
If you are big fans and user of FeedBurner, you should download FeedBurner FeedSmith, because this plugin is the perfect plugins to automatically redirect your feed into FeedBurner.

+ Google XML Sitemaps:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

+ Header-Footer:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/header-footer/
Why you have to install 10 plugins to add Google Analytics code, MyBlogLog tracking code, Google Webmaster verificaton code, MyblogLog verification code, tradedoubler verification code (and so on…) on head of footer section of your blog pages?

+ HidePost:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hidepost/
A WordPress plugin that protect a part of your blog posts (maybe links, images or texts), that only registered and logged in members can see it. Simply put your content to be hidden with [hidepost] and [/hidepost].

+ Register Plus:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/register-plus/
Enhance your Registration Page.

+ Simple Tags: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags/
Simple Tags is the successor of Simple Tagging Plugin This is THE perfect tool to manage perfeclty your WP 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 tags

It was written with this philosophy : best performances, more secured and brings a lot of new functions

+ Sociable:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/
Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed.

+ SRG Clean Archives:
http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/about/projects/clean-archives
This plugin is designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion that’s Search Engine friendly on a dedicated page or in your sidebar.

+ Subscribe To Comments:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/
Subscribe to Comments is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address!

+ WP Security Scan:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/
Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions.

+ WP Super Cache:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

+ WP-PageNavi:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi/
All the information (general, changelog, installation, upgrade, usage) you need about this plugin can be found here: WP-PageNavi Readme. It is the exact same readme.html is included in the zip package.