Why do you use wordpress? (And please share your tricks and secrets.)

• The software is FREE!
• It's easy to use
• Easy to learn with the right training
• Easy to update
• It can be used to make not only blogs, but also great looking websites
• I can work on my sites from anywhere in the world because the software is on my server
• The search engines love it
• It makes working with RSS easy
• You can make great looking sites without knowing any code
• You can completely change the look of your entire site in less than 5 minutes without losing your content.
• You can upload graphics without owning or learning how to use FTP software
• Building WordPress sites is faster than building sites with an HTML editor once you know how

Well, that's a start anyway,

John P

I use WP because it's simple. It's simple to understand, hack, find answers to complex questions, etc.

Can't think of any good tips and tricks at the moment.

It's created for the search engine....imagine constantly chucking content all year round. Imagine you have 240 pages on Google the first year, 500 the second and 750 by the third year...with a little promotion, it's not easy to miss your site....

I love WP because its fast and easy to set up a website. I did 2 simple sites that market ebooks in just one week. That includes the design time. Another thing I love is how many amazing plugins there are for WP. From secure contact forms to event calendars to photo albums and on and on. Really cool.

In terms of net marketing I'm really glad I found out about Thesis theme early on. I've used it on many of my sites and it rocks in terms of SEO. Google "Raw Food Bali" and click the first site that comes up - that's one of mine build on Thesis. Promotes my raw vegan classes here.

Wordpress is simple to use, have lot's of useful plugins and is great for SEO.

Google loves blogs! and every marketeer knows it, hence the giant abundance of plug ins and themes

* FREE

Incredible flexible

* FREE plugins

* extremely strong for SEO and rankings

* not harder to learn than Xsite or similar systems but way more powerful

* infinite ways of customization with free themes

If you have a good template optimized for search engines, with the help of a few plugins, you can make impressive websites/blogs in a short period. And with little SEO these sites would start ranking in search engines. This is what I like in WordPress.

WP? - Love it!!!

TIP: Make use of the page template feature to create useful variations such as squeeze pages etc. You can then have plugins like All-in-One SEO running on your squeeze pages as they are still part of your WP site (rather than what some people do, which is have them as a separate HTML file)

Quick method:

Create a clone of page.php (in Filezilla just drag and drop page.php from server to local machine, change name of file to whatever you want (e.g. page2.php), drag back to server)

File will now appear in your Wordpress theme editor

Select your new page template file and add appropriate header text at top of page:
Now adapt code of that page to match requirement (for example switch from two-column design with sidebar to full width no sidebar).

You will then find your page template is listed in the Page editor when creating/editing a page. Just select the template when required and add relevant content.

Once you get going you can start using PHP 'if' statements in header.php to change header graphics, etc so your page templates have different headers, footers, etc.

Hours of fun!

M

I love WP also . Can any tell me how to get rid of the "home" page? I have asked a few people but none have been able to help. I am sure someone here will be able to help

Ditto to what has been said, and I'd like to add: as a complete newbie a few years ago, I managed to figure out how to install and configure wordpress on my own. I didn't know anything, seriously, and I created a great looking site. As I learned, I optimized it in many different ways, changed the look, etc., and never once lost my content. Easy, lovely, infinitely configurable and fast.

wordpress is the most commonly used plot form nowadays its easy to access and use and many plug-ins that can make or help your work light and easy. But becareful about those plugins since some of them are malware or not safe and tested.

Hi,
I started out using Squarespace and I still really like it, especially the support. I still have a blog on Squarespace but I converted my main blog over from Squarespace about a year ago and I never looked back. The plugins, widgets, and functionality is superb. And, of course, the community is what makes it so great.
If there is ever anything I need to find out how to do, there is always someone out there to help. I'm interested in what others have to say.

Once you have mastered the platform you can create 20+ sites a day.
You can easily obtain advice on how to best utilizes its features on forums such as this one.
Very quick to change your advertising options.
When I started creating websites 12 years ago using html there were far less oposition as this was to complex.
Now any one can use wordpress.
Html is to website creation as dos is to personal computing
Wordpress is to website creation as windows is to personal computing.
It pays my rent

I use wordpress because it's simple...

Some tricks I could say...

Try Massive Passive Plugin by Mc Rea!

It very cool...

Just do search. Well I know its not free but for IMers well it's a lot of a heck!