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WordPress started out as a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. It has since grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. While WordPress itself is free to the public, the right solutions partner can take the core offering to a whole other publishing level.
"Blog" is an abbreviated version of "weblog," which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog is a frequently updated, personal web site featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles or other Web sites. Blogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects.
Many blogs focus on a particular topic, such as web design, politics, sports, or mobile technology. Some are more eclectic, presenting links to all manner of other sites. And others are more like personal journals, presenting the author's daily life and thoughts.
Generally speaking (though there are exceptions), blogs tend to have a few things in common:
- A main content area with articles listed chronologically.
- An archive of older articles.
- A way for people to leave comments about the articles.
- A list of links to other related sites, sometimes called a "blogroll".
- One or more "feeds" like RSS, Atom or RDF files.
Some blogs may have additional features beyond these.
WordPress for Business
By virtue of the fact that WordPress makes it easy for us to write, publish, edit and organise our blogs, it is already a content management system (CMS). What does “Use WP as a CMS” mean when we already are?
Generally, it means to use WordPress as a more conventional CMS, for less blog-ish content and presentation style. We are looking at portfolio sites, news and magazine sites, article libraries, gallery sites, photologs, e-commerce web sites, and many more. It means to push WordPress beyond what it was originally intended to do - publishing blogs - and into the realm of more robust and perhaps more complex style CMS like Drupal and XOOPS, or into the realm of a CMS specialised in other fields, like Vivvo (for news and article sites) and WSN Gallery (for media galleries).
Sounds like WordPress is what your business needs? Contact Emotech today to discuss how we can help you acheive a fast and effective publishing and content solution!