Wordpress - the Ultimate Blog Software
It’s wise to start your blog on a good note. It’s difficult to change direction and start over again once you have it going. Blogging for free? When you get something for free, the quality might be lacking.
Hire a website host for your blog if you can afford it, and verify that Wordpress can be run on your server. “No Fee” blogging? A word to the wise: you get what you pay for.
Unless you are a computer wiz, be sure that whichever hosting company you select to host your blog includes WordPress and Fantastico in the package. Wordpress is automatically installed with Fantastico. The other option is to download and install Wordpress by yourself, which is difficult.
Wordpress is easy to use and you do not need to be a computer programmer to be able to use it. It works as soon as it is installed, and you can begin blogging right away.
What makes Wordpress better than others? WordPress has the most users. Wordpress has been established for some time. A wide variety of themes are available in the WordPress library. (The appearance and feel of your blog can be altered with themes.) Unless you want to alter a function that cannot be done with ‘canned’ plug-ins, it is unnecessary to have any knowledge of designing or coding.
Useful functions can be added to your blog when you enable Plug-ins. You have the option of making your own plug-ins with PHP or by selecting a third-party plug-in. Plug-ins for WordPress can be located on the Wordpress website. A plethora of them are available and they can do almost anything you can imagine — there is even one plug-in that will generate an XML sitemap of your site for Google.
You have the entire administrative control with your blog when you use Wordpress. There are so many things that you can do. The user management functions of WordPress are excellent. For instance, authors can write articles and, upon approval, editors can publish those articles, while administrators can alter the design of the blog — but none will have “premisions: to do or alter the work of others.
Don’t waste hours of your time only to have to tear it all down and convert it over to Wordpress.