Why WordPress is so good

Having now set up several web sites using the blogging script called WordPress I have now decided that it is a fantastic script.

I currently use it for 2 blogs, this one and www.photography-basics.com, plus I use it for my business web site and one of my client sites, Caridian Group. To use wordpress as a CMS (content management system) is very simple and doesn’t take much customisation. I’ve also got another three or four sites coming soon that wordpress will be ideal for.

As normal web sites don’t really require a commenting feature you can modify the theme so the comment forms aren’t displayed, you also don’t really want to display authors and date info so that can be removed in the theme too. Apart from those minor issues, using the pages, rather than the blog posts, is a very simple way to set up and create a web site in a short space of time.

My ethos when developing is to never reinvent the wheel, it just takes time and you often end up with the same result as has been done before anyway. So wordpress is a big help. As its opensource, I can’t sell it, so all I charge clients for is the time it takes to set it up and create a theme. This makes it cheaper for the client, which is a big benefit for small businesses, and it enables the clients to update the sites themselves too which gives them a better end product. Of course, if they want me to make the updates for them, I’m happy to do that too.