What is the most user friendly and currently stable ed. blog script?
 

Looking for a blog script, odds are word press is fine as long as it is a fairly stable build. Yet will listed to any suggestions if you provide a why etc.

I want to set up a blog. (true blog, lots of articles, possibly allow comments).

For a true blog, Wordpress is definitely #1.

If you want more, go with Drupal instead.

I would have to agree 100% on this one

What is the most stable build for wordpress since I know they update the damn thing like almost weekly it seems, or should I just go with latest build?

Forgot, what about mandatory plugins?
Figure I want to allow comments, will be using adsense, will not be for adult (no thumb galleries, etc), may contain some pictures or videos that I will eventually make. Also want it SE friendly.
Ways to maintain and or check link trades?

Allowing comments is relatively simple if you incorporate the comments.php file that comes with the default template into the template you're going to use, although chances are the template you acquire will already display comments. Regardless, you won't need a plugin to enable comments. You'll probably want to use some plugins that are geared toward comments, such as Askismet or something that will add nofollow tags to links that visitors post.

There are multiple plugins for Adsense, so you're covered in that area.

For SE purposes, you'll want to use SE-friendly links and this is accomplished by adjusting the Permalinks structure. You can also take on a sitemaps plugin that will create a standard XML sitemap and ping Google/Yahoo/Live when you add new posts. A plugin that handles the meta and title information will be good as well if you're not familiar with the appropriate and built-in Wordpress functions, as well as PHP in general.

Not sure about checking link trades. You might want to look into an external script for that, and I'm sure that it won't be that hard to integrate it into your Wordpress template. Something from Cheapest Adult Scripts, or whatever that site is called will do nicely (unless you can find an open-source alternative).

I'm working with the newest version of Wordpress, which if I'm not mistaken is 2.6.2. I like it very much, it runs smoothly (although it still maintains the traditional Wordpress bloat), and there are a lot of great features that you'll find handy.

Hit me up if you need more info or help :thumbsup

LOL sands, fuck I should just have you install again for me. When I spoke about commets I was talking about preventing as much spam as possible, maybe requiring registration etc.

Wordpress.