Why I Am Lovin’ Wordpress As My Blogging Platform

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 7:55 am

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I am not a programmer and going with Wordpress as my blogging platform scared me a bit so I tried the free route first using Blogger.com and regretted wasting my time. I was even shut down at the complaint of a competitor and they didn’t even check to see if the claims were valid, which they weren’t but I was still shut down for a week while they did nothing until I asked them to have a human check it out.

Now it’s Wordpress for all my blogs and I have never had a single page shut down. Gotta love Wordpress.

I soon found tips online that showed me how to modify the code in Worpdress blogs. It wasn’t as hard as I had led myself to believe and after a few practice runs I was able to add the code I wanted to place advertising on my blogs.

Now I don’t even contemplate other blogging platforms. Wordpress does all I need and a whole lot more.

WordPress Is Search Engine Ready

Search engines really like Wordpress and I get my pages indexed pretty fast. I am no expert but I would say that the Wordpress developers did a great job on the Wordpress code.

I have had no problems getting search engine spiders and bots to index my pages. All I have to do is add great content and I am set to go.

Notifying Pinging Services For Your Blog

Pinging?? In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(blogging)

I love Wordpress, it tells web blog tracking systems each time my blog is updated.

Pinging services are to blogs what search engine spiders are to websites.

It always amazes me when I do a search in Google an hour after posting and find my article indexed already. That’s power. Wordpress has to be the quickest method for letting the world know you just said something.

I have a long list of pinging services that I have added to the Ping List in the Writing section under Settings.

More Themes Than You Can Shake A Stick At, Switching Themes Is Quick And Easy

I probably go way overboard on collecting themes for Wordpress but there are just so many cool themes for every niche imagineable.

I spent my first 5 years online building web sites for others and for myself of course and it was a lot of work with lots of headaches. Switching everything I do from static web sites to blogs was the best thing I have done online.

Note: I have made changes to the Wordpress code that didn’t convert when I switched themes. Other than that the change over from theme to theme is pretty seemless.

It’s great fun to have multiple themes for holidays and seasons.

Extend The Power of Wordpress With Plugins

One of the things I like the most about Wordpress would have to be the available plugins that make blogging so powerful.

Make Your Own WordPress Themes

I haven’t given this a try yet. I keep myself pretty busy but I think it’s just a bit of fear creeping in. I have heard that developing a WordPress theme is fun and easy. Well that’s if I use a Theme Development Tool like Artisteer.

I talk with people every day who have never tried Wordpress but once they see the potential they are all over it. If you haven’t already given WordPress a try. Enjoy