WordPress is one of the best know and most used blogging platform nowadays. In this article I would like to describe my personal experiences of using WordPress for creating and managing blogs and websites.
Using WordPress for blogging has a lot of advantages. One of the most important for me is that you have full control about your blog. You can edit code personally to fulfill all your needs but if you are not a programmer, you can just use some of thousands of plugins and themes available for free on internet.
The next advantage of using WordPress is than you can use your own domain name. For comparison, if you are using blogspot.com or blogger.com, you don’t have your own domain, just subdomain (something.blogspot.com), by using WordPress, you can chose your domain name, for example www.mydomain.com . It’s very useful, when you want to use WordPress for commerce websites.
Of course, installing WordPress requires some experiences. You have to be able to buy domain and hosting, copy files to the server by using FTP protocol and set database connection. But if you know how to do this few steps, the whole installation process doesn’t take more than 15 minutes. You can also let somebody with skills do it for you.
I use WordPress platform not only for blogging, but more frequently for creating commerce websites for clients. As I mentioned, you can buy your own domain and set WordPress as a publishing platform. WordPress has very easy and sophisticated interface, so you can set it as a backoffice for commerce sites and let users to edit texts and other content of these websites. For easy commerce websites which usually contains some basic information about company, the only thing you have usually done is to design user interface of website.
WordPress is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) prepared and there is a lot of plugins providing advanced SEO. You don’t need to spend a lot of time with onpage optimization. WordPress has also built in RSS functionality.
WordPress platform is using PHP as programming language and MySQL as database. WordPress is absolutely free of charge. Size of WordPress in compressed form is only 3 MB.
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Good and informative post about WordPress. It's a little surprising we haven't seen more discussion about it in the course blogs.
ReplyDeleteHow much WordPress requires maintenance once you've installed it? Is updating easy?
Yes, update to newer version is very easy, you just download and copy new version files and "click" update button..
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