I’m currently putting a lot of energy into learning how WordPress works and here’s why. WordPress is blogging software that was designed with the intent for it to be as easy as humanly possible for non technologically savvy people to create and run a blog site. And they succeeded so much so that’s it’s the number one most popular open source blogging software in use today. This success is because they created an interface that even my mother could use. Make it easy for someone to use and they’ll use it. You can go to www.wordpress.com and in 5 minutes set up and begin blogging on your new blog site. But of course doing it that way means you’re limited to the look of a “theme” that they provide and you’re limited to 3GB of data on the database in their server. That’s fine for most people but I believe that it’s potential goes way beyond that.
What if you could use that same functionality but integrate it into an existing website. And do it in a way that the viewer doesn’t know (or better doesn’t care) that they’re looking at a page that’s generated by a whole different technology. A technology that allows the website owner to add fresh content as often as they want and do it themselves. That’s the power of WordPress. I can design a site that gives my clients the ability to manage some of the content themselves in an easy to use way and do it for far less money than if they had to have me update the website.
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