Why We Like WordPress: A List -
“WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.”
That’s how the system is described at WordPress.org, and it’s basically accurate. The .org site is the hub of the Open source community around the WordPress software. WordPress.com it the WordPress-based blog service offered as one of the products of Automattic, the company that drives much of the WordPress project and a lot of other interesting related and unrelated things.
So even just starting to describe the ecosystem that the WordPress software comes from gives a sense of how much activity there is around it. It’s a bit like Wikipedia in this respect. Wikipedia has the Wikimedia foundation as well as all its contributors and the community they compose. Just as that community is what populates Wikipedia with the content that makes it valuable, it’s the unbelievable number of contributors to WordPress that make it such an amazing tool. People contribute by creating and sharing custom themes(designs), plugins (add-ons that introduce new functions to the platform), and just offering advice on blogs and message boards all across the Web.
WordPress is often, and not inaccurately, described as a blogging tool. The fact that WordPress.com is explicitly a free blogging solution for individuals gives people a good reason for having that impression. However, it can be so much more.
WordPress can be used as the basis for entire Web sites, offering a content management solution, significant design flexibility, and an elegant way to incorporate many of the best social media and search optimization tactics all at the same time.
Because, as everyone knows, the Internet loves lists, here is a list of three of the big reasons we love WordPress and use it for often for sites we build (including our own):
[Blog] When did the “old” social media ecosystem show up anyway?: ReadWriteWeb, a blog we often enjoy, has a post … http://s3nt.com/b7x9
[Blog] What’s the difference between “information” and “expression”?: In a recent MediaPost Online Media Daily art… http://s3nt.com/b7r1
[Blog] Hitwise Twitter Eclipses Digg: From Mark Walsh at Online Media Daily:
The market share of traffic to Twitt… http://s3nt.com/b5ns
[Blog] The End oF White America…and more: The January/February issue of The Atlantic is fantastic. The writing… http://s3nt.com/b5mp
[Blog] Tumblr v. Twitter; Micro-blogging v. Micro-messaging: [And now the third installment in our increasingly ex… http://s3nt.com/b0ss
[Blog] Cranked, a One-Person Show about Crystal Meth Addiction: This past Sunday I went and saw Cranked, a one-per… http://s3nt.com/bzq7
[Blog] Vampires Vs. Zombies (Ongoing): or, the History of the Internet, According to Horror
The Golden Globe … http://s3nt.com/bzni
[Blog] Tempest in a Teapot: The blogosphere was burning up this week (har har), after the London Times reported th… http://s3nt.com/bywu
[Blog] Blu-why: Or, Sony’s Game Theory
I’ve always wanted to love Sony, and the only thing that stops me is S… http://s3nt.com/bwh7