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Jean54 · **Joined:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:55 pm **Posts:** 11

What advantages are there to using WordPress?

karrar · **Joined:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:33 pm **Posts:** 10

That one liner question can has many pages in answer. I have been using Wordpress since 6 months and there is nothing better than it. I have heard about Joomla and Mambo as well but I think Wordpress is going on the top due to its plugins.

Phuture · **Joined:** Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:02 pm **Posts:** 50

I have to agree with the person above me. Wordpress has numerous plug-ins. And they aren't just useless ones either.

tanveer · **Joined:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:55 pm **Posts:** 10

Even I have read on many forums that Wordpress is more search Engine Friendly as compared to other content management Systems(I think it is also another CMS, correct me if I would be wrong). However we h ave to use m any Plug-ins or mods to optimize a blog for search engines. There are many complexities also, we have a Plug-in which handle everything about Google Adsense but author of that Plug-In has told something about banning by Google to use that.

bootup · **Joined:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:46 am **Posts:** 25

Wordpress is so easy to use and setup, plus it is not that resource intensive as other bulky cms portals like drupal or joomla. Plus there is not much learning trend involved with wordpress, whearas it might take some time to get the hang of others like joomla for example.

michael · **Joined:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:51 pm **Posts:** 10

Phuture wrote:

I have to agree with the person above me. Wordpress has numerous plug-ins. And they aren't just useless ones either.

Why are you saying that plugins are useless? I think you took the wordpress wrongly. You don't know powers of Wordpress buddy.

sakes · **Joined:** Sat Dec 08, 2007 3:22 pm **Posts:** 25

I have used wordpress in the past and I used to be very satisfied with it. Until I found Drupal. It's not that wordpress is not good, but Drupal has really almost unlimited options. You can create a blog or an e-commerce site using the same script. Awesome.

khansb · **Joined:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:30 pm **Posts:** 10

sakes wrote:

I have used wordpress in the past and I used to be very satisfied with it. Until I found Drupal. It's not that wordpress is not good, but Drupal has really almost unlimited options. You can create a blog or an e-commerce site using the same script. Awesome.

Thanks for reminding me about Drupal because I have bookmarked it but have forgot about it certainly. I have read some very good reviews about its features and other plug-ins. Of course I am going to give it a try for one of my upcoming blog.

shani · **Joined:** Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:47 am **Posts:** 34

Nice to know that you are going to choose wordpress for the sake. But some days earlier I had heared about the Auto Blog Writer or somewhat like that. According to the programmer it will fetch the best content from the net and will add into your own blog automatically. I was really concerned about the copyright at that time.

itshepro · **Joined:** Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:57 pm **Posts:** 306

It uses php for server side scripting and mysql for the database so you'll need to ensure that you have a server that supports both of these.

Setup a mysql database and make sure you know what the path (usually 'localhost'), username, password and database name are.

Then there's a readme.html within the zip file that you'll have downloaded from http://www.wordpress.org

and rest you know your blog is conntected to the world

brianmatsik · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:12 pm

I think wordpress is the best service for blogging. There are several website providing such services but wordpress is the best.

erick_ny · **Joined:** Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:55 pm **Posts:** 235

karrar wrote:

That one liner question can has many pages in answer. I have been using Wordpress since 6 months and there is nothing better than it.

Well in my opinion blogger provides you better facilities when compared to wordpress, for example you can use adsense and you get good seo cause of bloggers good pr.

Deni · **Joined:** Thu May 08, 2008 12:48 pm **Posts:** 113

Wordpress is awesome. Use it. I like wp themes and I am currently hosted and running Wordpress blog on my site, it's working well.

erick_ny · **Joined:** Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:55 pm **Posts:** 235

shani wrote:

Nice to know that you are going to choose wordpress for the sake. But some days earlier I had heared about the Auto Blog Writer or somewhat like that. According to the programmer it will fetch the best content from the net and will add into your own blog automatically. I was really concerned about the copyright at that time.

Most of these kinds of programs give a link of real source under each entry. You need not no worry about copyright, it will make your content popular.

descorpio · **Joined:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:45 am **Posts:** 18

The main advantages are

1. The time stamp facility available in it is the best that i could say. I can manipulate my posts to any date.
2. The easy to use and its presentation is very simple but effective. One just will take 5 minutes to learn on how it works.
3. The number of unlimited themes available for it is also another advantage.

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