This is the first of a series of articles about WordPress and how and why it is fast becoming a time-hungry monster that takes a lot of feeding, but offers people amazing opportunities and possibilities.
First of all, let’s look at what it is.
WordPress the Mongrel
From Wiki:
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 16.7% of Alexa Internet‘s “top 1 million” websites and as of August 2011 manages 22% of all new websites.[5] WordPress is currently the most popular blogging system in use on the Internet.[6][7]
It was first released on May 27, 2003, by founders Matt Mullenweg[1] and Mike Little[8] as a fork of b2/cafelog. As of December 2011, version 3.0 had been downloaded over 65 million times.[9]
The current version of WordPress has been out since September and it is now 08.28 on Friday the 30th December.
WordPress is a wonderful tool that is giving ordinary organisations the ability to create professional websites that sing and dance. It means that they don’t have to spend a lot of money, they can maintain autonomy, they don’t need a tech department and they can make it do almost anything. Plugins provide unbelievable options and the themes are growing more gorgeous each day. WordPress is a mixture of PHP, CSS, MySQL and is a CMS- content management system. It can also be adapted to be an ecommerce site, a CRM-customer relations management system, a membership site, a social network and is being used by Fortune 500 companies.
Sounds great eh? Well, it is and it isn’t.
I love it and it is the bane of my life at times.
What I have come to realise is that I have, by default, come to be a WordPress expert. This is because I have been an early adaptor and learned on my feet. You see, WordPress allows us to make a home-baked cake and
