Wordpress is the easiest way to publish content online, what else…?
March 4, 2008 – 1:36 am
While most of us are very much aware what wordpress is (it makes it easy for us to write, publish, edit and organise our blogs), but very few know that wordpress is capable of performing much more than just publishing blogs. So with this post, I would like to highlight some not so popular (yet so useful) features of a wordpress, which will be really handy for guys who are new to Internet and can’t afford to experiment with paid designers and programmers.
Wordpress as a CMS
In the world of the modern Content Management Systems like Drupal (I find it really complex though), and other specialized CMS(news website) like Vivvo and WSN gallery (media related website), Wordpress is the most conventional, free and easy CMS to implement and maintain overtime.
Use Wordpress to build a portfolio site or gallery
In order to use wordpress to manage your portfolio website, instead of posting simple blog posts in reverse chronological order, you’d want to feature your projects along with a thumbnail. Eric-powell and nathanielstern are two wonderful examples of a wordpress portfolio websites. Simple yet so attractive.
Use wordpress to build a gallery or photoblog
Similarly you can use wordpress as an image gallery as well but you have to enable comments and rating on the products so that the highest rated graphics are sorted to the top. This is a list of some very useful wordpress pluggins to manage comments and ratings on your blog.
Use wordpress to build an ecommerce website
Thanks to the wordpress compatibility to paypal that you can even sell products on your wordpress blog. All you have to do is to put thumbnails of your products, put some description & price tag and integrate it with Paypal. You are all set to run an ecommerce website built totally on wordpress. filipinoartisans and crafty-designs are two rocking e-commerce blogs built on wordpress CMS. I’d be mean if I don’t tell you how to do it. It’s simple, just read these two blogs and you will be able to do it yourself.
Use wordpress to build news website
Now that sounds interesting. But let me tell you this is the most easiest thing that you can do with wordpress. That’s primarily because news related websites usually need to have feature articles kept on the front page, thanks to wordpress’s default reverse chronological display format. Now since such blogs usually attract huge traffics, you can expect a decent affiliate revenue coming your way ( but only if you can put up every thing right). Do you hear the sound of Ka-ching ! BTW living.cebunetwork & xxlmag are two awesome news/magazine blogs that seem to be minting decent revenue at the moment.
I know there is so much more that you can do with wordpress, but with this post I hope I’d be atleast able to make you start seeing wordpress as more than just a content publishing platform. The best thing about wordpress is that you don’t have to be a master coder to implement new functionalities. Just a basic HTML here n there does the trick (most of the time) and with new pluggins evolving every day, sky is the limit with future wordpress possibilities.
3 Responses to “Wordpress is the easiest way to publish content online, what else…?”
Hey friends,
howz everyone doing?
anyways… back to adding comments, i feel that yes, all these open source solutions are wonderful! Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, etc. have certainly brought around a revolution in todays times. It is now so easy to be managing your websites, and with plugins being developed round the world, it adds so easy to add latest features to the websites.
Now a question arises will this affect the web dev market? I feel that it should have already set back the development companies a little bit, but now with people being more net-aware, businesses would like to have a set-apart web presence, different from what normally is available. Moreover, expertise is required to add custom modules to these open source solutions, and to be a great business, you need to be a trend setter, and not a trend follower.
Three cheers opensource,
Sameer Relan,
MD - Three Cheers India
By Sameer Relan on Mar 15, 2008
Well said Sameer, Nice to see your comment. With Joomla n Drupal 6.1 website development and management is so easy now. But I think there is still a need of a CMS that is actually easy to customize and doesn’t require a programing expertise to implement. May be atleast as simple as wordpress…Joomla n Drupal are good but are too complex for a person with an average technical skills to implement
By Pulkit Rastogi on Mar 16, 2008
Well pulkit, well, you are right, but I kept Wordpress/Joomla/Drupal in the same category. I was talking about open source actually. However, it gets tough to implement only a blog on Joomla/Drupal, and in the same way, it gets tough to implement a complete website on Wordpress, every though everything is possible.
Just a “little” knowhow and a little “Googling” can help you clone any website! It just gets to a problem when you have to implement something new.
Sameer Relan,
MD - Three Cheers India
By Sameer Relan on Mar 17, 2008