WordPress is the best blogging software available! My recent studies shine!
I haven’t posted here in a while, and firstly I’d like to apologise for that. And secondly, I’d like to briefly explain what this post is really about.
Eager to improve the experience of this blog, I decided to look into the brains of wordpress and all it stands for, and see if it is truly as good as people say it is. Before now, I just took people’s word for it – and it turns out I was right to do so – but I wanted to really see what makes it so special.
I’m not going to talk about the usual, ie; Easy CMS, Plugin Systems, Widgets, Admin Panels etc – Instead I looked for what I think really matters to a webmaster.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
WordPress’s SEO URLs are undoubtedly phenomenal, we all know that! But more so than that, the actual on-page SEO standards really are top-quality. I guess you could put this partly down to the XHTML compliance – that always helps. But it’s more than that, the use of perfect header tags, quality navigational links, and the absolutely perfect hierarchy of mark-up, search engines LOVE WordPress!
Without any real off-site SEO, I am high up on page #1 on Google for the search term “Webmaster Blog“, and my position is strengthening. And the best part is, to achieve this, away from the odd link here and there on forum signatures and blog feeds, I am doing NOTHING but posting content! Wordpress is a fully automated top-ranker!
Functionality:
There is nothing worse than a dysfunctional website. Nobody likes to have to ‘figure out’ a website before they can use it.. And with so many competitors around, why bother? “I’m sure another blog will be easier to navigate..” – GONE. Unless your blog is perfectly functional and navigable, you’d be losing out on a LOT of potentially loyal users.. WordPress offers perfect navigation, perfect functionality, and super-light loads. Obviously this can be compromised by terrible themes and widgets, but the basic structure of WordPress is unbeatable! As long as you choose a theme which complements the original structure of WordPress, you’re in business!
Speaking of which, I hope to create or buy (if my budget allows it) a nice new unique theme for this blog – I think it needs it!
My advice to you, as a happy and successful blogger, is go for WordPress! And with the new WordPress 3 bringing even better functionality, now really is the time to soak up those perks!
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Agreed. However, speed by wordpress.com is slow to access for blog hosting. It’s better to set up your own blog host using wordpress.
Thanks for your comment! You’re absolutely right; WordPress.COM isn’t great..
But the wordpress software is absolutely leading-edge! For an Open Source piece of software, it’s incredible!! Even as open source, it’s still by far the best blogging software of all time!
Something I really like about WordPress is that the updating section of it is just super fast. Using the buttons you do not even need to install a new version on your web server as everything would be done automatically by the system itself.
Indeed the upgrade system is unbeatable! As plugins use a plugin system of include()s etc, core files are usually untouched by most people, so upgrades are automated.. However, once you get into modifying the core files, you regret it pretty quickly for all the editing you have to do to upgrade.. But such is life..
I’ve always been using Blogger because it is very easy for beginner! But I always see a lot of blogs and forum posts saying how good WordPress is. I seem to admire their use of plugins though. If blogger can host plugins instead of those widgets, or along with it, Blogger would so good then!
Well I can’t say much for Worpress.com (wordpress hosting), but what I can say, is the WordPress script (wordpress.org) is tremendous! I absolutely love the script and it’d take a LOT to make me use anything else xD
True WordPress is a easy set up , tons of free themes , But i still prefer Joomla , over word press , I dislike word press for the simple reason you need to add plugins for just about everything , inserting links , yada yada yada , to me Joomla is Still A+ Great interface control panel and everything is orginized , front page , media , categories, etc etc .
Agreed. WP really easy to install on hosting and there a lot free theme downloadble from internet.
WP is the best, because of power of opensource and power of mind of people behind the scene.
Couldn’t agree with you more.
WordPress is by far the best CMS out there IMO. Been using for 3 years and counting
/Sweely, from DP!
Absolutely
I’ve probably also been using it about 3 years on and off 
This is the only blog I’ve kept going because the rest weren’t really educational for anyone like this is 
Indeed the upgrade system is unbeatable! As plugins use a plugin system of include()s etc, core files are usually untouched by most people, so upgrades are automated.. However, once you get into modifying the core files, you regret it pretty quickly for all the editing you have to do to upgrade.. But such is life..
Couldn’t agree more – I tend to stay away from modifying the core files now. I could never keep on top of upgrades other wise..