Lorelle VanFossen writes on Blogging Gear: Start With a Good Blogging Program. He points to several articles and reviews on blogging programs (well worth a read if you’re serious about what you do). In the post he asks:

So where is your list of things you love about WordPress, huh?

Here’s mine:

1. WordPress is self contained. I don’t need a separate text editor, uploading software, FrontPage, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, nothin’ else.
2. WordPress is community software 1. It has a rock solid foundation based on what people need to get the job done.
3. WordPress is community software 2. Members of the WordPress community extend and amplify its functionality with plugins and themes that make a great tool spectacular.
4. The WordPress ‘motto’ Code is Poetry. As a religion blogger I tend to look at the deeper metaphysical meaning of things. When you connect with your Creator you connect with His theme —“ which is the beauty of that which He created. WordPress connects.
5. WordPress does widgets. As a person with an accounting degree I’ve heard about widgets in all my coursework and I use the word regularly to define concepts. Widgets represent something —“ ‘Hey look, I’ve produced 1,000 widgets today.’ Well, WordPress (via Automattic) brought widgets to life. Widgets let you add all that neat stuff to your sidebars without a Herculean coding effort. A nice touch —“ making software useful and easy.
6. WordPress means dressed-for-success. Words, and their use in expressing thoughts, feelings, and concepts, are part of the picture. To get you message across you need a medium. WordPress is the cathedral that gives some gravitas to the words the preacher preaches. The medium might not be the message, but it helps to have a medium that acknowledges the fact that people’s thoughts carry a part of their innate human dignity.
7. WordPress plus Akismet. Stopping evil —“ hey, gotta like that.
8. WordPress lets you play. You can hack, play, modify, break, and rebuild to your hearts content. Change this, modify that. It is software that allows you to be in charge of your art, to the extent you wish.

There’s more of course, but that’s the highlights for me.