How many of you prefer Wordpress for your sites?

13 years ago

I like wordpress and static sites both.

Wordpress is good for starting out, and static websites give you more control on layout etc.

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Lazy

13 years ago

I created custom CMS templates for iweb. paired with the free tool iweb SEO and I can't go wrong. I like doing all my work offline, and then just posting it with one click.

Keep in mind i'm on a mac. (ewwwwwwww right?)

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AustinDigital

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Matt Morgan

I like wordpress and static sites both.

Wordpress is good for starting out, and static websites give you more control on layout etc.

Do you mean just plan HTML for static sites? I'm guessing that is sort of like a landing/sales page layout? If so, I've seen some nice free wordpress theme that are like that.

I agree though, Wordpress is great for those just starting out. You can literally have yourself a complete and functioning self-hosted wordpress website in under 5 minutes.

Originally Posted by Lazy

I created custom CMS templates for iweb. paired with the free tool iweb SEO and I can't go wrong. I like doing all my work offline, and then just posting it with one click.

Keep in mind i'm on a mac. (ewwwwwwww right?)

Sounds interesting, I'll have to look into it. I have a mac computer, works like a champ! (I'm on a windows comp at the moment though).

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Najmi

13 years ago

I love Wordpress because of mainly 2 reason

1.The simplicity of the layout
2.The awesome plugins

Its also the first thing I did when I started doing IM,making blogs.Good times

-Najmi-

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AustinDigital

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Najmi

I love Wordpress because of mainly 2 reason

1.The simplicity of the layout
2.The awesome plugins

Its also the first thing I did when I started doing IM,making blogs.Good times

-Najmi-

Same here, I think that may be why I'm partially so attached to it. Unless I'm coding a site from scratch, it's always my top choice.

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jacked

13 years ago

I love wordpress, just because I can build out small niche sites in less than an hour.

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Darrell Hagan

13 years ago

I use Wordpress almost exclusively unless I need a 1 page site. Many people see Wordpress only as a blogging platform and don't realize that it is quite possible & easy to make a Wordpress driven website with static pages which is not a blog at all. As for having total control, Wordpress pretty much allows that via the ability to manually edit various theme files.

I tried other CMS platforms (Drupal, Joomla etc.) but concluded that even though they are versatile in their own right, they simply are not as mainstream as Wordpress in terms of third-party offerings, support, and ability to construct sites for resell.

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AustinDigital

13 years ago

Originally Posted by jacked

I love wordpress, just because I can build out small niche sites in less than an hour.

I agree, As long as you have a base template and some prewritten articles, basically 3 clicks and your site is done!

Originally Posted by Darrell Hagan

I use Wordpress almost exclusively unless I need a 1 page site. Many people see Wordpress only as a blogging platform and don't realize that it is quite possible & easy to make a Wordpress driven website with static pages which is not a blog at all. As for having total control, Wordpress pretty much allows that via the ability to manually edit various theme files.

I tried other CMS platforms (Drupal, Joomla etc.) but concluded that even though they are versatile in their own right, they simply are not as mainstream as Wordpress in terms of third-party offerings, support, and ability to construct sites for resell.

I can agree with this. I'm shocked every day by the amount of people who have no clue wordpress has the ability to do static posts (which you can make into a static page). I too tried Joomla, and while I understand the basics, I do not feel it is NEAR as straight forward as wordpress. I mean you click something call "post" and then "add post" to make a post, how much clearer can it get?

Originally Posted by joecheoky

Yes, I like Wordpress for the ease of use, especially with the free themes provided it is very easy to setup a website, but I found some of the plug-ins are crappy, especially those that might cause your website going haywire.

Yeah, this does happen occassionally I've noticed. Some plugins use different variations of the same coding so it can cause problems, but it's generally a simple fix. The great thing too is that there are usually multiple plugins for everything, so if one doesn't work you can always use the next.

Also, I love that themes are free for the most part! Even premium themes like the ones by Web2feel and WPcrunchy are free, and they are great! Not to mention the stock theme directory on Wordpress.

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faceblogger

13 years ago

I prefer WordPress because it is just better than all others.

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Rajamanickam

13 years ago

Wordpress is search engine friendly.

My blog is ranking #2 in Yahoo first page result, its from Wordpress

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AustinDigital 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Rajamanickam

Wordpress is search engine friendly.

My blog is ranking #2 in Yahoo first page result, its from Wordpress

Rajamanickam

Nice! Congrats, and you're definitely right!
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rseobeginner

13 years ago

As I experience using wordpress and others, wordpress is easy to use, many nice pug ins you can install and for me easy in SEO.

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paul wolfe

13 years ago

The amount of flexibility you get from Wordpress - combined with the ease of use - makes it a no-brainer.

I use Wordpress for Websites, websites with blog attached, membership sites, and more. The password protect of posts or pages feature is a very simple feature you can learn in less than 60 seconds that you can use to your advantage in your online business.

I also have a site that I program in HTML. There are too many pages on that site to convert to Wordpress....it's been established too long. So I have a direct comparison - and there's no comparison. Wordpress is so much easier and more powerful and quicker to use.

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Barry Unruh

13 years ago

Wordpress is my first choice for a content repository for communicating with clients and generating SEO love.

A static webpage is my first choice for a site of only a few pages which needs to load fast, reduce server load, and does not require all of the features of Wordpress.

Explain to me why you want to use a database engine driven site to present a single page landing page? Ask your hosting company their opinion....

Here is an illustration of what many of you are proposing....Go buy a 52" Hi-Def LCD television to listen to the SuperBowl. (If you don't get it, read it again.)

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SGdarling

13 years ago

I get used to the wordpress that's why I don't want to study any other system, though may be there are better ones.

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Andrea Wilson

13 years ago

before I was using blogger but wordpress just feels simpler to use once you get the hang of it so I sticked to it.

Andrea

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flavius333

13 years ago

I've been using WordPress for at least 2 years now, with remarkable results.

Things changed a lot since then, but only for the better: more and more plugins and themes emerged only to make it even more customizable than ever before. The main software is regularly updated - and the dynamic structure can only help in the search results - by bringing your site closer to all the Web 2.0 requirements.

WP has developed into an excellent launch platform for any personal or even business site - not only blog; I mean, look around: who heard about Joomla lately?

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Paleochora

13 years ago

I can understand why Wordpress is so popular. There is a lot of flexibility and things can be changed around and re-vitalised very quickly.

I do wonder why people use it for small, one-page applications like squeeze pages though. A waste of a database, that.

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BlondieWrites

13 years ago

Wordpress is wonderful! I used to have my sites as regular websites years ago. One day, I just decided to try changing one over to a Wordpress blog, and I was in love lol. I only have a couple of sites now that aren't Wordpress, but will soon be changing them over also.

Wordpress just makes things so much easier. It's easy to set up, easy to use, so flexible. It's so easy to use that even a newbie can learn it fairly quickly.

Can you imagine an internet world without Wordpress?

Cindy

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Rajamanickam 13 years ago

I am not saying that my blog is #2 in Yahoo first page result for just using Wordpress.

I did some on page and off page stuff for this.

Just tried to say that Wordpress is search engine friendly, and even others too.

You can see my blog in Yahoo search result for this keyword
SEO Professional

Its a newbie.

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- Fino 13 years ago
  
  Could anyone here actually help me out with my site? ( soccerjaw.com ) I've been working on, I'm very new to Wordpress and I still haven't been able to figure out exactly what I had pictured in my mind. I ultimately would like this site to have a nice clean layout that includes a place where I can write articles and have a forum at. please pm me if you can help!
  
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- Michael Shook 13 years ago
  
  I used to use XSitePro a lot, but not so much anymore. It was one of teh first commercial web design tools that used templating and tokening on a large scale basis.
  
  I still have some sites on that and I love them. And they rank well.
  
  I have moved more to wordpress becasue I got the Flexsqueeze theme and that has turned out to be a good time saver and it is pretty easy to work with.
  
  Now WP is much more like a CMS like joomla was designed to be but for me it is a lot easier to use than joomla.
  
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Anonymous Affiliate

13 years ago

I use wordpress for sites where i forsee uploading new content here and there. But for the typical one page niche site or product sales pages i still go for standard sites.

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Palusko 13 years ago

If it is a site that requires frequently changed content, I use Wordpress. If it is a minisite or a review site, where content changes a little over time, I use static HTML. And for e-commerce, I typically go with Magento.
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TZ

13 years ago

Too many reasons to list.

Thank God for the ability to schedule posts!

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JohnMcCabe

13 years ago

Originally Posted by miscbrah

What are the reasons you prefer Wordpress for your websites or blogs?

Here are mine:

It's extremely easy to navigate on the front end as well as admin panel
It's got plugins that can improve your site in just about every way with a single click
It's very easy to customize
There are tons, and I mean tons of designs (aka themes) that you can use (both free and paid). These themes can make your site look like a blog, youtube, photoblog, landing page, etc
You can get a designer to make a custom theme for under ~$100

Basically, Wordpress is usually my choice simply because it is appealing to everyone, easy to use, versatile, SEO friendly, and cheap to customize! If you do not use Wordpress, what CMS do you use and why?

I find this post a bit disingenuous. Your title asks one question, while your opening line suggests that everyone already agrees and prefers WP. And lo and behold, there's a coupon in your sig for "Wordpress hosting". Wow, what a happy coincidence.

Since you're relatively new around here, I'll let someone else sort out whether this is on the level or just another promotion in the discussion area.

I use WP where I think it's appropriate. In my case, that's blogs and sites I intend to make authority sites with regularly updated content in quantity.

For small, static sites that rarely or never change, give me plain old HTML any day of the week. There's no messing with updating constantly, worrying about plugins breaking or leaving security holes, themes with lousy SEO, etc.

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seobro

13 years ago

I like word press. Fact is, setting it up is easy. However, Google penalizes my wp sites and gives them lower ranking than similar static HTML pages. For this reason, and many more - I prefer static HTML when creating pages.

Also, wp is hated by hosting companies. That is because mysql is a resource pig.

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Ken Durham

13 years ago

I've been involved with development for a long time and I can say WP can be used to do most everything you want. There is no limitation in design once you get to know how templates work and modifying plugins to fit your needs is fairly straight forward if you know some PHP.
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The biggest issue is server load. But if you have a dedicated or virtual dedicated server, speeds seem to be pretty good. The one other issue is you have to use care when performing updates. So far I haven't had any trouble. I love the automation abilities for performing backups, malware scans, etc.. WP also puts a lot of effort into security, which is important in today's world.

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Adie

13 years ago

I like wordpress mainly SEO wise, easy to navigate, easy to install, easy to customize (theme), and every one can work with it.

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