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WordPress is a need for a revision in plain English, this version 3 is out? Wonder if it is ready for prime time as a CMS? (If you do not know what a CMS, do not worry.) We will at some of the hottest features without touching opaque technical language favored by so many WordPress fans.
WP template a Crazy Good Default Theme

The new default theme, Twenty 10, the box looks good. It is reminiscent of the popular Cutline theme, but updated. This is the first standard theme that will wow almost every WordPress user or potential customer right out of the box.

Direct Change Header Image or background colors
Funnily enough, earlier versions of WordPress requires a dip in CSS editor background color or image for the header to change. It was frightening to non-technical users, easy to screw with something more than a misplaced comma, and just plain boring. While an increasing number of themes have begun to include these features, WordPress 3 adds an image browser for the header and a color wheel to change the background color, making these changes in an instant. And it even comes with a couple of wallpapers from the box.

Finally, an Intro-page feature
One of the most common bugaboo WordPress is the difficulty in creating a unique page that appears when the site “book cover”, as a splash page is used by many sites. It is the most natural way to discover a new website viewer and the subject of many plugins. The process is now simplified to the point of choosing what your front page in WordPress General> Reading presets.

Help me!
Get context-sensitive help on every page in the WordPress admin area by clicking on discrete Help tab at the top right of the admin pages. You will receive comprehensive assistance directly from the WordPress Codex huge without having to manually search.

WordPress as a CMS: Convert blog posts on a static page
A special new page messages indicating that you treat the blog as just a drop-in module, peer-level with a static page. This brings even more into WordPress Content Management Systems (CMS) mainstream, making it much easier to past corporate gatekeepers, sometimes past the WordPress’ reputation as “just a blog” to get. (A CMS is a way to robust, easy to maintain websites without the user of the website programming or even HTML. WordPress has a full CMS for years, but many of those who control the company’s cuts, office resistance masts.)

WordPress as CMS 2: Custom Messages
Many, perhaps most, sites using WordPress as something closer to a general purpose website creation system, because it’s so damn easy to use. It meant a lot of wordpress admins were using faulty layout customs complex to the different categories of information to be displayed.
Enterprise-level CMS systems allow you special page types that are actually specialized database forms so that they consistently and properly displayed for each type of information. Suppose, for example, you have a product review site that fields Product name, description, category and rating. Blog posts only title and content category.

Custom Messaging, you can create new message types with additional fields, so each time a new product is introduced, there is no danger of leaving a field or incorrectly formatted accidentally. WordPress 3 for use of these features require additional plugins or themes, but the API will support these plugins almost trivially simple. And in true form adds the rich WordPress support for tags.
More WordPress blogs now a snap with WP 3

There is an alternative universe of people who need to simultaneously handle many WordPress installations. Until now they were relegated to an underclass WordPress, with a slightly-incompatible version called WordPress MU. It is a thing of the past. WordPress MU is superseded by WordPress 3.0, but you only know if you adjust your wp-config.php. Adding multiple blog support means to edit a single line. It would come directly from the dashboard, so why not do it that way?
As a novice user would be confused by the confusing and sometimes dangerous possibilities. By requiring manually change the WordPress team cleverly hidden the added complexity of multiple site management. They were novices fall down the rabbit hole.

WordPress CMS controversy is history
WordPress CMS would be a better name for the new version. “WordPress is a CMS controversy is over. WordPress 3.0 is a flat-out killer CMS. This will prove the ruin of many lucrative, too expensive enterprise software licenses. And with good reason. Features like multiple blog tailored treatment and move messages to the big time.