Wordpress

As we know there’s not enough info on WordPress, but a huge info indeed so here’s my simple try to serve you WordPress as a simple soup.

WordPress began as an innovative, easy-to-use blogging platform. With an ever-increasing repertoire of themes, plugins and widgets, this CMS is widely used for other website formats also. Even for the one who do not know coding or is a non technical person , or be a technical person, these characteristics reduces the chance or error as well as helps save time. Most of the designing is done with simple drag and drop, or either by a single click. Very intuitive indeed.

It is an Open source system, Supports W3C Web Standards, self hosted and hosting options.

WordPress Aesthetic Features

• Themes
• Plugins
• Widgets
• Multi user and multi blogging
• Mobile support
• Large community supporter

WordPress Important Features

The most important feature of WP is it is SEO friendly because it allows sending pings to other sites, making categories, tagging your posts, use of h1/h2 tags etc. It is cost effective as well! As everything has cons WP is supposed to be used a certain way without modification because any modification that you give to it may very well cause it to break. Upgrades bring more bugs than fixes sometimes.

The beauty of WordPress is its not only now a days use for blogging but covers a wide range. Some of its extraordinary uses for nontechnical purpose are as follows

• Membership Directory
• Business directory
• Job board
• Email newsletter
• Forums
• Contact manager
• Wiki
• Review sites
• E-Commerce
• Digg like voting sites

The renownedworks of WordPress are CNN, Playstation, New York Times Blogs, People Magazine, and even Ford!

Famous WP Blogs

• SitePoint
• TechCrunch
• The Next Web
• BoingBoing
• Hotair
• VentureBeat
• Mediaite
• NYTimes Bits
• GigaOm
• Flickr

Famous brands

• Ebay
• General Electronics
• Reuters
• Canonical (Ubuntu)
• Forbes
• Sony Playstation
• Mozilla
• Slideshare
• The Wall Street Journal

Source

Some of the world’s biggest brands and industries rely on WordPress.com

Thus last but not the least I would like to sum up that WordPress is very inspiring platform for every kind of user, hope the about little information motivates you to work in WordPress.

(WordPress foundation, initial release- may 27, 2003 , platform- PHP, type- blog software, license- GNU GPLv2, website- www.wordpress.org)