WordPress – the Ultimate Blog Software
It’s wise to start your blog on a good note. It’s difficult to change direction and start over again once you have it going. Blogging for free? When you get something for free, the quality might be lacking.
Hire a website host for your blog if you can afford it, and verify that WordPress can be run on your server. “No Fee” blogging? A word to the wise: you get what you pay for.
Unless you are a computer wiz, be sure that whichever hosting company you select to host your blog includes WordPress and Fantastico in the package. WordPress is automatically installed with Fantastico. The other option is to download and install WordPress by yourself, which is difficult.
WordPress does not require you to be a programmer. You can start it immediately after it is installed, and begin blogging in no time.
For what reason should you use WordPress, and not another type of blogging software? WordPress is the top brand. It has existed for quite some time. There is an wide variety of themes available through WordPress (the appearance and feel of your blog can be altered with themes). There is no need to know how to design or code, unless you want to make a change to “canned” functionality.
Plug-Ins – You can add intriguing functions to your blog by using the plug-ins. You have the option of selecting a third-party plug-in or, if you know PHP, then you can make your own. The WordPress website has plug-ins available. They have a wide variety and they offer multiple functions, including a plug-in that will generate an XML sitemap of your site for Google.
You have the entire administrative control with your blog when you use WordPress. There are so many things that you can do. The user management functions of WordPress are excellent. For instance, authors can write articles and, upon approval, editors can publish those articles, while administrators can alter the design of the blog — but none will have “premisions: to do or alter the work of others.
Don’t invest lots of time, only to have to destroy it and bring it to WordPress. Do it right from the start.
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