“From Wikipedia.com: WordPress is an open source blog publishing application. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog which was developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg. The latest release of WordPress is version 2.7, released on 11 December 2008.”
Above that, Wordpress is the next evolution for people who currently have their blogs on free blogging services such as (@Blogspot.com) www.blogger.com or Wordpress’s own free blogging platform, (@Wordpress.com) www.wordpress.com.
The main functions of the Wordpress blog CMS (Content Management System) is that it allows you to edit, create and modify your blog posts directly from your web server rather than log on to a 3rd party site such as Blogger.
Wordpress is also highly customizable, with the ability to modify the entire look and feel of the site as well as usability functions via themes and plugins that are readily available for Wordpress.
Just type in ‘Free Wordpress templates’ or ‘Wordpress Plugins’ in Google.com and you’ll see what I mean.
Templates
The use of many of the free templates out there can give your blog that look that you’ve always wanted it to have but could never quite achieve in your free blog host.
Better still, you can modify an existing template to give yourself a more unique look, or create a theme from scratch for a one of a kind blog.
Plugins
Wordpress plugins or widgets give your blog more functionality for both your readers, and for yourself.
You can add plugins to show the most recent comments, the most popular posts, add polls and more for the benefit of your user and their interaction with your site.
For yourself, in the backend, plugins can automatically make your site compatible with Google Analytics, automatically place Google Adsense for you and even catch spam comments from flooding your site.
All in all, Wordpress is a must for those who want to start blogging seriously and want and added bit of functionality to their blog. For Internet marketers, it is a must, period.
In my next post I’ll make a quick tutorial on how to install Wordpress on your server via cpanel and fantastico.
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My favorate wordpress site is Erik Zapsa’s. If you haven’t heard of him, he’s the author of the Courses To Cash System which is launching soon.
Hi Andy, thanks for the info. Will give it a look when I have the time… come by again (if ur not a bot… haha)
I really like wordpress
Regards,
tipid168
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I really liked your blog! You have some great content. Check out my blog and give me some feedback… I just posted a great blog about the 36 Best Wordpress plugins for 2009., thanks !
Thanks for dropping by again… p.s. this is a test of gravatar, just added it to my comments section.
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I run my blogs on a blogspot and I find optimizing my blogs very difficult. The amount of comments I receive really messes up my SEO activities and I end losing valuable visitors.
Blogspot is really not designed to allow you to easily modify to get some good SEO done on your blog… what you may want to consider is installing a WordPress blog like mine on your site.
Or you could just moderate your comments and delete the ones which you think aren’t relevant to your subject matter…
Internet Business will grow in the years to come as more and more people get online. I also invested in an online store.’:”
Wordpress is the best blogging platform ever. It is much better than Typepad and blogspot.-*;
i host 5 of my blogs on Blogspot and it is really good for beginners. but if you want something with more features, nothing beats wordpress-”*