Why WordPress is the best?

I have been using WordPress for some years now as a user, as well as a developer. I have worked on themes, written plugins for my use as well as some are on the WordPress plugins directory and as you see on this blog, I have some premium plugins like the Kish Multi Pro to manage multiple blogs and the Kish Twit Pro to manage multiple Twitter accounts.

WordPress is bread and butter for many and to a certian extend to me too

There are 100′s or 1000′s of companies depending upon WordPress for their business. There are many who develop professional themes and sell them to the WordPress users. There are 1000′s of sites powered by WordPress who run their business and make money.

History of WordPress

WordPress was co-founded by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little were co-founders of the project. The initial version was released during the year 2003 by the name of b2 / cafelog. WordPress has been growing since then with lots of changes. I have been using WordPress since 2004 and I have seen it changing with every new upgrades. The major one was 3.0 where WordPress MU got merged with WordPress. WordPress is free to use and is licensed under GPLv2 (opensource). The version 3.0 has been downloaded more than 12.5 million times which shows the popularity of this great application

WordPress.Com

Any individual can get a blog hosted within minutes. Just sign-up for an account with WordPress.Com and start blogging. You do not need to worry about hosting charges, domain registration, renewals, server maintenance, etc.

Core Contributing developers for WordPress

1. Ryan Boren
2. Mark Jaquith
3. Matt Mullenweg
4. Andrew Ozz
5. Peter Westwood
6. Michel Valdrighi

Sites Powered by WordPress

1. Bettercodes
2. I love Typography
3. NY Times Blog

WordPress – Technically

WordPress is a CMS powered by PHP and MySQL. Earlier we had to write HTML codes to create websites or use any publishing software like Dreamweaver / Microsoft Front Page, etc to publish, edit web pages. With WordPress, just login to the post writing page and publish a new page within minutes and you can do this on any web browser. You do not need to know what HTML, PHP or MySQL is.

Power of WordPress

SEO Friendly – WordPress is technically well written improving on every new release. If you are using WordPress, then you do not need to worry about the web standards. Most of the rules are followed and taken care.

Theming / Styling - Every WordPress installation can have its own style, looks and functioanlities. You have the option to use any WordPress compatible theme on your WordPress blog. There are 1000′s of free themes availabe in the WordPress Theme Directory. You can also get your own theme developed if you have some knowledge of PHP, MySQL and WordPress coding functions. You can find the entire documentation at the WordPress Theme Development Documentation.

Plugin Options – Every person will need some changes in functionality. You can do this by creating a plugin without modifying the core files. There are many function, actions and filters which does the magic. The output of most of the functions can be changed using these hooks. You can find the complete reference to the hooks here. There are 1000′s of free plugins available at the WordPress plugins directory or you can get it written.

Excellent TinyMce Editor and HTML editor – Writing a post is as simple as you write a document using a word processor. You can insert images, video, audio to your post with few clicks.

Free to use – Above all, WordPress is free to use

Eazy Deployment – Installation is very simple, just need to download the compressed file from the WordPress server and deploy it to your server and follow the instructions.

Upgrades – You get notifications on upgrades, just follow the instructions

Strong community to support – If you face any problems, just go to the support forum or try googling your problem, you will get solutions for most of your problem instantly or just do a post on the support forum, you will surely be helped out.

100′s of Developers for customization – Are you looking for customizing your WordPress installation, you can get a WordPress developer to get this done. There are many WordPress experts around who can do this for you, yes you will have to pay them to get the work done or even some may do it for free.

Top WordPress Themes

You can find 1000′s of free themes at the WordPress Extend directory and there are many theme developers who sell great themes like Woothemes, Elegant Themes, Headway, Affiliate Themes,  Gabfile Themes, Genesis Theme Framework, Thesis, etc

Top WordPress Plugins

There are many great plugins available. Some are free and some needs to be purchased. Some of my favourite plugins are:

1. All in One SEO
2. Related Posts Plugin
3. BuddyPress
4. WP Super Cache
5. Get Recent Comments

Other Popular CMS

WordPress is not the only CMS available. Here are a few which I have used, but I felt WordPress as the best solution for me. Reason, very simple, strong and caters all my need.

1. Joomla
2. Drupal
3. Mediawiki

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