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Monday, May 16th, 2011 at 8:55 am

Beyond WordPress Blogging

WordPress is the most popular blogging software available today. In just a few short years, the number Sites with WordPress has gone from a few to millions. What many companies and bloggers often overlook is that the capabilities of WordPress extend far beyond blogs. In fact, this blogging platform can serve as a sophisticated content management system capable of running corporate websites, e-commerce sites, portfolio sites and more. Here are some of the most powerful features of WordPress that separates it from a simple blogging solution.

Content Management
WordPress defines two types of content - pages and messages. Pages are static in nature and allow create content evergreens such as "About Me" which is very popular in blogs. However, this feature of the site also allows you to use WordPress as a content management system capable. It has a number of plugins that can allow you to do SEO on your website. You can also configure WordPress to use a page as the home page of your site instead of the default of the most common messages. This makes it useful for simple corporate sites.

In Online Magazine
In many ways, a magazine and a blog has much in common. Both are published content units periodically. WordPress is a great platform for online magazines, because you can set it directly contributing writers can add their content, but you can not publish. This allows a editor to review the content and timing of its publication. WordPress also allows you to schedule content to be published in a given time in the future and plugins as "Schedule future post" will give you a calendar that highlights days that have scheduled messages. This makes managing an editorial calendar in an instant.

E-commerce
Plugins such as "WP Ecommerce" allows you to easily convert a site WordPress in a job e-commerce site. This is especially ideal for small businesses such as artists or artisans. The WP-ecommerce plugin is compatible with a variety of payment systems like Google Checkout and PayPal.

Galleries
If you are an artist or designer to share your portfolio or would like share the latest vacation photos, WordPress has a large gallery site. There are numerous examples of sites online gallery. Many of them show a photo per message much like a blog. This allows the gallery to include much more than just a title and visitors can comment and interact.

WordPress can be used in a lot of surprising ways. The wide variety of plugins and themes and easy to learn API plugin makes it easy to extend the functionality of WordPress far beyond blogs. Are you getting the most out of your WordPress site?

About the Author

Michael Dorf is a professional software architect and instructor with M.S. in Software Engineering and 12 years of industry experience. He teaches for LearnComputer! (learncomputer.com), which offers public instructor-led PHP training courses. Whether you prefer to sign up for our PHP course or just read an article on how to secure PHP, you will find many useful resources on our website.

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