Summary of Benefits of Wordpress
I’m going to be part of the team advocating WordPress tonight, as a blogging platform of choice, and pulled together some brief notes on what makes WordPress so great.
Would love to hear your thoughts, on why you prefer WordPress over other blogging platforms, and also, a link to your WP blog, would be appreciated.
If you happen to also think WP isn’t so hot, or doesn’t meet your needs I’d love to hear why??
My rough notes so far (mainly from wordpress.org and wordpress.com):
wordpress founded in 2003
largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world
Open Source
Requirements:
* PHP version 4.3 or greater
* MySQL version 4.0 or greater
(The mod_rewrite Apache module)
http://wordpress.com/stats/
4,581,919 blogs on wordpress.com
9.8 million WordPress publishers:
4.2 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com plus
5.6 million active installations of the WordPress.org software.
3,249 plugins – 14,532,117 downloads
601 themes – 1,232,704 downloads
1,906 ideas, 51,228 votes
In September 2008, an impressive 236 million people visited one or more WordPress.com blogs, and they viewed close to a billion pages on those blogs:
Almost everything on WordPress.com is free, and things that are currently free will remain free in the future, but we do offer paid a la carte upgrades for things like CSS editing and custom domains. How do we pay for everything? WordPress.com is run by Automattic which currently makes money from the aforementioned upgrades, blog services, Akismet anti-spam technology, and hosting partnerships.
WordPress Links
WordPress Pages
Full standards compliance — We have gone to great lengths to make sure every bit of WordPress generated code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C. This is important not only for interoperability with today’s browser but also for forward compatibility with the tools of the next generation. Your web site is a beautiful thing, and you should demand nothing less.
No rebuilding — when changing templates
Changes you make to your templates or entries are reflected immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages.
Easy Importing — We currently have importers for Movable Type, Textpattern, Greymatter, Blogger, and b2. Work on importers for Nucleus and pMachine are under way.
XML-RPC interface — WordPress currently supports an extended version of the Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and finally the MovableType API. You can even use clients designed for other platforms like Zempt.
Multiple authors
Spam protection
Comments
Cross-blog communication tools— WordPress fully supports both the Trackback and Pingback standards,
Bookmarklets — Cross-browser bookmarklets make it easy to publish to your blog or add links to your blogroll with a minimum of effort.
Ping away — WordPress supports pinging Ping-O-Matic, which means maximum exposure for your blog to search engines.
Workflow — You can have types of users that can only post drafts, not publish to the front page.
No related posts.
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
I love the fact you can plug most things into it, skin it how you want to, its a simple interface that just works very very well. better than some of the CMS’s i’ve used in the past.
Joe Edwards
AKA Brand Joe
Twitter: @brandjoe
There’s so much that is great about wordpress. At the start there’s the famous five minute install then there is the amazing design. I feel it really segments it’s functionality in a way that it is simple to use and if you want to have greater control you just have to dig a little deeps into the menu options.
My wordpress sites are:
Reyespowered.com
Awebsiteaboutnothing.com
Artiling.com
I love the way that we can customize wordpress. Mading a template is so easy and we can make do everything we want. Writing articles and managing the content is nice. Of course we cannot pass without talking about scripts.
Ben Jebara
Twitter: @benjebara
Plurk: benjebara
Realy good article. Thanks