So what is WordPress? I like to think of it in terms of a complete system to take care of my web-site needs. It is in many ways like a software programm to develop my sites, but since I don’t have to program anything nor write code nor worry about updates, it really does more than software does for me. WordPress can manage my information by creating categories or sub-areas where I can move my information around. It also manages items such as comments for me and allows me even to change the looks of a site very quickly. On one site I run I need a daily calendar for just one month per year – I can add that and remove it after the month with just the click of a button, without having any of my data lost or at the very least, no longer linked in.

The whole structure of the WordPress has been designed to be flexible. And since I don’t have time to get into PHP nor even MySQL Database, I am very thankful to have a community where there are enough experts who are willing to offer advise, insight and point me in the right direction to find answers I need. Best of all, when January 1st comes around, I don’t have to worry if I changed all of my 200x to 200x since my pages and posts are automatically dated.

Yes, I would say WordPress is a system for me, a system which is getting better and better with each new release (and there have been many new releases, also a nice touch). For sure I will not be going back to HTML. As with any system, it isn’t perfect and I would love to see a few things added which I like (including the looks of the “themes” which tend to get pretty boring) but I see potential since it is a system which is trying to grow along with the Internet community it serves.

For example, some of the areas it is growing into is:

More CMS functionality (Content Management – in other words, like a traditional website not based on dates for your posts, but more for content as you want the public to see it and find it.)

More SEO friendly (Search Engine Optimization – always changing, but simply how to help search engines find you, and thus, eventually, have people find your site.)
[SEO is a huge topic, more on this later ...]

More users (WordPress has a strong following, and it is getting much stronger. In a year or so it is predicted WordPress will have 50% of the blog market.)

More later (there is a lot to be said about WordPress, so I’ll keep coming back to this.)

Bye for now … xodigoguy