Wordpress

It's become all things to all people, and it does nearly everything very well. I've been using and designing web sites with WP since the spring of 2004. I've seen it grow by leaps and bounds. Each new release has more and better. The plugin community actively develops all kinds of new plugins that add functionality, features and fun to WP. As long as they remain active, WP will thrive. The only thing that keeps me from recommending it to ALL my clients is the fact that there's no decent plugin that allows Member Only content. So when I need that, I use CMS Made Simple. (Sorry, WordPress!)

About a year ago I wanted to start a blog, and I chose Wordpress as my platform. I was surprised with the 1-step instalation process. However, after the instalation I was pretty disappointed with this platform. I had a photo-blog, and it was very difficult for me to add pictures into my content. I also didn't like the fixed width. I guess this is what happens when you want to have a highly customizable platform that everyone likes: you end up with a product in witch the end user has to invest time to be able to use it. I finally built my own blog/gallery (php/sql) platform.

When I started using Wordpress i had no programming knowledge, but that didn't matter, it was very easy to install and customize its look and functionality by uploading plugins via FTP. More recently I wanted to customize my blog more than plugins allowed me. I was amazed how easy it was, its code is real ‘Poetry’. After you understand its logic all comes by itself. Anyway, the power of Wordpress comes from the very large community, many programmers and designers contribute with plugins and themes and because of that you have many for your blog. It doesn’t matter if you want a photo blog, a video blog or a news blog. If there is something I would like more from Wordpress, that would be a more powerful WYSYSYG editor.