WordPress as a CMS

1. Cheap or Free
Using WordPress for your website means it’s cheap or free. WordPress itself is free, a theme is easily under $100 or even free and you save loads of money (compare the cost of template vs custom design). Haven’t you heard? Stingy is in.

2. It’s That Easy
If you’ve got any computer savvy, WordPress is easy to use. If you can send an e-mail, use Microsoft Word or set up a Facebook account, then you can use WordPress. And normal use doesn’t run the risk of mucking up the design. It’s website creation for non-techies.

3. Do It Yourself
With WordPress you enter the Do-It-Yourself world. No more waiting for and paying a programmer to fix a tiny error, saving you time and money.

4. Many Users, Many Places
WordPress is online and offers multiple users, which means you’re not the only one who can fix something in a pinch and you can access it from anywhere. Which means if you’ve got Internet access in Tahiti, you could work from there. That also means your important site is backed up on a secure server with multiple redundancies, not some high school kid’s laptop.

5. Climb the Search Results
WordPress also makes it easier to optimize your search engine results. That means your site is more likely to land on the first page of Google results, which means people are more likely to find yo

Features and Benefits of Wordpress

Here are also not a million other files for you to upload. This system is easy to download, and easy to upload to your own personal websites. Wordpress is built to W3C standards for XHTML and CSS. These features make Wordpress code easier to manage and easier to render in standards-compliant browsers. Non-compliant browsers are made compliant with only a few changes.

Wordpress websites also have some very positive features like themes, non-compiling changes to the website and the ability to utilize plugins. The most positive factor in the Wordpress utility is that you do not need to know php. With many blogging systems you often need to know how to program. With Blogger, I spent hours embedding Google ads in the pages. Also when I made changes I had to recompile the script or “rebuild” it. This took time while I waited. Imagine how much time you can spend “rebuilding” dozens of blogs! In each blog I modified each blog and linked it to my central website. Linking blogs that get regular traffic is a technique called “hub and spoke” theory.

In this scenario, you have to see how you can arrange your blogs to produce traffic for a central website. This is an excellent tool to produce income for your business. Wordpress has the potential to be the perfect tool for your business to generate an average level of traffic to a central website. The relative advantages are:

1. You don’t have to know php.
2. You don’t have to know how to program at all.
3. You don’t need to use the Wordpress hosting service. Although this is offered, it is not necessary.
4. Wordpress has aggregator support for standard RSS configurations. This has already been done with Atom.
5. Wordpress automatically connects and configures with MySQL with virtually no effort.
6. Being built to standards increases Wordpress’s longevity and future internet adoption
7. Wordpress automatically imports images.
8. The Wordpress template has built-in links added in the template.
9. Wordpress allows for the customization of metadata.
10. Wordpress allows customized styling for printing.
11. Wordpress allows the administrator to design headlines.
12. Wordpress allows for categories.
13. Wordpress allows for customization of the sidebar.
14. Wordpress allows for customized RSS Feeds.
15. Wordpress allows for customized forms.
16. Wordpress allows for basic blogging posts.
17. Wordpress allows archiving for posts.
18. Wordpress allows for contacts in the template.
19. Wordpress allows for an “about” page.
20. Wordpress allows for the styling lists and is built with CSS.

WordPress gives you the freedom to set your links the way you want them to look like. In the administrative area of WordPress go to Settings -> Permalinks. On this page you can choose from several predefined options or use a custom structure for your links.

Writing posts and pages is the core activity in WP. You can start your editorial experience by clicking the Add New button located in the Posts menu:

You can proceed with entering the desired content. Once you are ready, the new post can be published just by clicking the Publish button.

Wordpress is one of the best blogging platforms out there — if not the best. It’s very powerful, can be easily extended and modified. It’s documentation is very well written and, so far, had answer to all of my crazy questions

You know what’s the best part of Wordpress? With some knowledge of PHP and MySql, you can turn it into much more than just a blogging platform. After doing some HTML to WP work for Roger, I thought of one way how could Wordpress be transformed into a CMS. Note the “one way”. This is not the only way for doing this, and, most likely, not the best way.

I didn’t look much, but I think that there are some nice plugins out there that can do this. But, where’s the fun in the download, upload, activate process? Nowhere!

I will show you how to change your Wordpress into a CMS and it really doesn’t take much coding to achieve this! The example presented here is simple and will have a static page for it’s home page, another static page for the “Portfolio” page and the blog. The home and portfolio page will have some of own content and both will include some content from other static pages. You all most likely know the blog part

WordPress is the most popular web blogging software because it provides:

- Ease of use. WordPress is suitable for just about anybody – from the absolute novice to the advanced programmer.

- Feature-rich interface. WordPress has a rich text editor with advanced multimedia support;

- Expandable. WordPress’s community distributes a large number of modules for almost any popular website feature;

- It is Open Source. This means it is free to install, use and distribute Wordpress on your site.