Sunday, December 13, 2009

Doing with wordpress


"WordPress is an open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL" - wikipedia definition

What is the first thing that came to your mind when people talked about wordpress? Blogs ? Online shopping? However , few knew the true nature of wordpress. It is actually a Content Management System that allow one to create a blogsite with just a few clicks and a sever. Wordpress was first released in May 2003 by Matt Mullenweg. Currently, it is being used widely with a estimate usage for 202 million websites. It was born out of a desire for an elegant, well- architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MYSQL and licensed under the GPL. Wordpress is an open source project. This meant that hundreds of people everywhere are working on it. More importantly, the usage of wordpress is free . No one has to pay anyone a license fees. Wordpress has also another service call wordpress.com which lets user to get started with a new and free wordpress-based blogs without the hassle of having a webhost or other technical hassle. However, it is less flexible than the the WordPress. Wordpress started with just a blogging system but it has evolved to be used as full content management system. Thousands of plugins, widgets and themes are developed by the community to help enhance Wordpress

Comparing Wordpress with other CMS such as Joomla. I am really impressed with its user friendliness. Wordpress forum volunteers were also another attraction to web developer. Personally , I have experience the usefulness of having an active forum . With more experts skills helping to troubleshoot issues, problems are solved effectively and efficiently. What i like about most about wordpress is the theme feature. It allows me to choose from within and able to download theme easily from its official theme websites.


This is the administrator page


Examples of websites developed using Wordpress





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