Comments on: Why use WordPress?

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:57:55 +0000

I know what you mean, “been there, done that” in terms of developing a custom content management system. I found that the benefits you gain from having full control you lose in other areas. The question is often asked “what happens if you disappear or I want to host elsewhere?”. With WordPress everything is standard, and while we hope people would not wish to host elsewhere, they could if they wanted to. Not to mention the stress of making sure every potential security vulnerability is accounted for.

From what I hear WordPress 2.7 has a few interesting features, so we have that to look forward to.

Thanks for the comment!

By: The Floating frog

The Floating frog — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:52:09 +0000

Wordpress has proved to be awesome for us. It took a while to convince my business partner to use wordpress for the blog software as he is totally against third party products and wanted to develop our own. I’m glad to say I’ve converted him fully to WordPress and made him eat his words

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:46:32 +0000

I know exactly what you mean, it’s so difficult convincing people of how Google works. I have had a few conversations that lasted half an hour or so, I think they are getting the message, then they say “I will be number one on Google though, right?”.

You may have something on the content writing idea, although in my experience clients often want to have their cake and eat it, remaining in complete control of the copy but expecting us to magic them up the rankings at the same time. If you can solve that puzzle I’m sure you’ll become very rich from it!

By: Piggynap

Piggynap — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:40:54 +0000

Great post, I totally agree that WordPress is a fantastic way to run your site’s content. I’ve found it especially useful for clients whose site doesn’t already contain a news section or comprehensive CMS – you can install it quickly and cheaply and it’s very easy for the client to use. It’s also fantastic for people like me who don’t have a technical background because I can basically build a whole website with it and integrate it with my own server no problem

Having said all that, you can give someone a blog but they still won’t update it – then they’ll complain about their rankings or ask why you haven’t been updating it (for free!). I sometimes think we should offer a full content-writing service so it can be budgeted in properly – but that’s probably a comment for another post!

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:30:37 +0000

Hi Lyndi,

You’re right, it does work really well. The advantage I find over “hardcore” CMS systems is the interface is friendly and easy to use. I have used Joomla too, and while it’s not to bad to design for, the interface can scare the user a little. I will post the full article in a few days. Thanks for the comment!

By: Lyndi

Lyndi — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:24:50 +0000

The nice thing about WordPress is that one can also combine the static and dynamic pages. As you mentioned, if you use WP is used for a non-blog site it really comes into it’s own. I am eagerly awaiting your post on this some day.