Why We Love WordPress & How Blogs Have Changed The Web

Why We Love WordPress & How Blogs Have Changed The Web

We are the biggest WordPress junkies you are likely to meet and there are oh so many reasons for it. WordPress is one of the most popular and powerful content management/ blogging platforms around. It is free, simple, feature rich and keeps you in complete control over just about every aspect of your project.

Simplicity.
It is as simple or as complicated as you wish it to be and comes in several varieties. The basics are fairly easy to learn but the more you play with it the more you understand what it is capable of doing for your business.

Flexibility
Unlike Squidoo, Blogger and other platforms that limit the use of code like JAVAscript and HTML, WordPress is very flexible and allows you to add just about any widget or code that is displayable on the web.

Scalability
You can scale it up or slim it down to fit your needs, budget and team. It can be used as the blog of a working mom or transformed into a full fledged e-commerce site for a snowboard company.

Mobility
It can be accessed via the web from anywhere or through an app on a mobile device like an iPhone or BlackBerry.

Delegation & Easy Management
WordPress allows you to delegate the work and manage multiple users. Imagine easily collaborating with multiple team members to add content and features to the same place at once.

Speed
WordPress is easy to install and configure with very little downtime. It is a peppy installation that allows you to work as fluidly and as quickly as anywhere else on the web.

Plug-Ins
There are currently over 7,000 plug-ins found on the WordPress Site and thousands more commercial plug-ins found elsewhere. The plug-ins make it easier to manage the site, spread content and provide different ways for your audience to interact with the content.

Media Rich
It would not be successful without the ability to easily and quickly display stunning visuals in multiple ways courtesy of some awesome plug-ins.

Community Presence & Support
WordPress is not perfect but luckily, the WordPress community is vast, making it easy to find a helping hand. We provide support for it along with several other platforms.

Themes
The theme selection and building customizable themes for our clients is probably my favorite part about WordPress. There are so many ways to go about the look of a site: create your own theme, select a free theme or purchase one. You can do many things to make it your own.

Ability to Stand Alone
WordPress stands alone as a website or a blog and it does extremely well at both.

How Blogs Have Changed Our Attitude About the Web
This website is obviously built on WordPress. I use the term is because blogging platforms changed the tense and web forever by transforming it into something that is constantly changing. A few years ago, it would be more proper to say this site was built on WordPress. Our ideas about the web have evolved from a static beginning to a living representation of ourselves and our digital lifestyles. Now many places on the web like blogs and social networks are in constant motion, they are fluid and ever changing. And when they stop moving, we think of the sites, profiles and blogs as dead.

Overall, WordPress is the solution that most closely embodies many theĀ  principles of digital liquidity- a concept that would likely not exist were it not for the invention of the blog.

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