Free WordPress Tutorial

Friday, June 13th, 2008 at 9:25 am

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What is the future of WordPress?

WordPress is a free content management (CMS) application that anyone can download and install in your hosting service to create your own website. It is easy to learn and easy to use and above all not cost a thing to create a WordPress website. All you need to do is pay for your domain name registration and accommodation. And there are numerous WordPress tutorials out there that allow you to fit pieces homw to select and register a domain name, buy their hosting, WordPress Installation and use of CMS.

Google Trends shows the search volume of WordPress is only increasing month after month, year after year. But it seems that more and more people are looking for WordPress and use the CMS to have their online presence.

Strangely though it also has other web services that provide the same level of functionality that WordPress not even need to install anything. All you have to do is register. Squidoo and Hubpages are two places that comes to mind. You just sign up and within minutes You can publish the website. You can also connect elements of your page to your Amazon affiliate account. In essence, this means you can sell products Amazon in the pages and get a commission when someone actually click on the link (which points to Amazon) and buy the product. The advantage is that everything is totally free because you do not need a domain name or web hosting purchase. The disadvantage of these websites is that you do not have total control of your account. Neither has the total control the web pages they publish. The company can go under or acquire another company and changed its marketing strategy that can affect your account.

With WordPress CMS to provide more style and functionality. And there's a whole economy to support this ecosystem WordPress. Companies, businesses and freelancers create these themes and plugins and provide free as well. prmium version of these themes and plugins means you get the support you need if something goes wrong. There are independent also offer their services development WordPress website and they also contribute to the ecosystem. The WordPress community is a "self-sustaining economy" in its own niche. As this economy is nourished by WordPress and the whole ecosystem is balanced between the gifts and premium applications, then we can see that this community will continue growing.

Innovation is also key. Automattic, the developers of WordPress, you have to innovate and to allow the CMS to evolve. Innovate is that WordPress have a future. Once the innovation process has stopped, then WordPress will be in a vulnerable position of being eaten by a much stronger competitor and Innovative offers the same ecosystem, but a far superior product. And the nature of ecosystems, the tendency of its inhabitants to emigrate to greener pastures once more data organized in the service of social online community. So the question is how WordPress innovate in order to remain relevant in a Web 3.0 environment? The answer must come from companies that are part of the eco sytem and the developer of WordPress. The latter should ensure that the installation of pipes integrating Web 3.0 technology will be here while the former will have to look for opportunities to use plumbing and offer a unique service that will be useful in a Web 3.0 environment.

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