| Wordpress is a fantastic Content Management | | | | interest you at all. |
| System, but as it is set up by default more to be a | | | | What makes Wordpress a Great CMS |
| blogging platform, many users initially get a little | | | | Well now we have looked at all the features that |
| discouraged. This article will look at how to get the | | | | might discourage you from using Wordpress as a |
| most out of Wordpress as a fully fledged CMS. | | | | CMS if you are not a blogger, lets look at some of the |
| | | | good features. Firstly the back-end of Wordpress is |
| Wordpress | | | | very well designed and very easy to use. Everything is |
| Wordpress started life in May 2003 as a pure blogging | | | | easy to find, and well laid out. Secondly, Wordpress |
| platform. The CMS is open-source, and comes in two | | | | has thousands of free and premium themes available. |
| forms, the hosted version, and the self hosted | | | | This is the major strength, you can easily design a |
| wordpress.org version, which allows any user to install | | | | professional looking site with little to no coding |
| Wordpress on their own domain. As its primary job is | | | | knowledge. In recent times, there are becoming many |
| to be a blogging platform much of the back end is | | | | more themes that are aimed at different purposed |
| constructed in such a way to make life easy for | | | | other than blogging. Many themes offer features such |
| bloggers. Features such as quick comment replies, | | | | as category based formatting, static HTML pages, and |
| approvals, and managing authors, make the platform | | | | other functionality which make it ideal for your business |
| ideal for any blogger. Also new content gets added | | | | websites. The third benefit comes in the form of |
| using "New Post", or "New Page". You will also notice | | | | plug-ins and widgets. Wordpress has literally thousands |
| that most themes default to publish content in reverse | | | | of plug-ins, many of which completely transform the |
| chronological order, standard in the blogging world. This | | | | platform for different purposes. So if you have a |
| is all very blogger oriented, and if you are looking to | | | | project in mind, research plug-ins and I am sure you will |
| use the platform as an alternative to static HTML | | | | find something which can help you in adding valuable |
| pages for a business website, much of this doesn't | | | | functionality to your site. |