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These are the short instructions, if you want more check out the extended upgrade instructions. If you experience problems with the Three Step Upgrade, you may want to review the more detailed upgrade instructions.

WordPress MU, or WordPress'µ, is the multi-user version of the famous WordPress blogging application. It is ideal for people who want to set up a large network of blogs. Please see forums at MU.WordPress for discussion.

Although WordPress displays in U.S. English by default, the software has the built-in capability to be used in any language. The WordPress community has already translated WordPress into many languages, and there are Themes, translation files, and support available in many other languages.

If you are new to WordPress and you're worried about where to start, you've come to the right place! Here is a very simple step-by-step plan for getting started with WordPress.

Before the advent of Themes, WordPress generated content using a single file, index.php, and files to support comment display and submission. A single style sheet controlled the presentation...

Not long ago, all web pages were designed with HTML tags. Then CSS took the presentation styles out of the HTML tags and into style sheets, expanding the visual capabilities of web pages. HTML has now grown into XHTML, a more mature and stable version, and ...

As with many software packages, WordPress has its own lingo or jargon. This article will introduce you to some of the terminology used in WordPress.

The easiest way to achieve this is by downloading and installing a plugin called WP e-Commerce.

Pages, or WordPress Pages are like Posts, except they can do much more than Posts, and they live outside of the normal blog chronology. You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content. Pages were added as a new feature in WordPress 1.5.

Template files are the building blocks of your WordPress site. They fit together like the pieces of a puzzle to generate the web pages on your site.