WordPress soars high in the blog engines charts and for myself remains a pleasure to work with. Partly because of the perfection, partly because of the immense community (plugins, designs & templates…), partly because of the free and perfect spamming control through Akismet. I just upgraded from v2.6 to v2.7 and it went smooth as silk, like any other previous upgrade in fact. Crack-full of new features and a slick new admin design, everything gets better. Compatibility with existing plugins, automatic upgrade of the database, wysiwyg editing of posts and comments…so much goodness for free. Kudos to the devs of WordPress, pure class.

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.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.