Why WordPress And What’s Next
I get asked all the time why WordPress, which to me is like asking why Rembrandt. WordPress powers millions of sites and some huge sites. Take a look at this discount new cars site you would never guess it was built on WordPress but it is as is car insurance quotes. That site has seven thousand pages indexed in Google but it’s powered by WordPress and so is this bankruptcy attorney site. Some people think WordPress can’t handle sites that size, complete baloney.
This is the mistake people make when they think of WordPress. They think it’s blogging software, it’s not it can even be used for training sites like the one in the link. Well I suppose it is, but that’s not its only use. Sure it started that way but it has evolved beyond that. I would say only a small percentage of WordPress users actually use it as a blogging platform look at payday loans online as a prime example.
Most sites that use WordPress don’t use any of the ancestor commenting services that you usually associate with blogging. Just as many sites don’t use posts at all and purely use pages and the parenting function that is so easy to use in WordPress. You can have a traditional looking site with side navigation or only top navigation with drop down menus. It’s really, really flexible and you don’t need to consolidate debt after you’ve bought it. No matter what you want your site to do WordPress can do it and usually cheaply if not completely free. In short WordPress is your friend, in fact scrub that WordPress is one of your businesses best assets.
Like anything WordPress does need some time to get used to but you don’t need to be a technical whizz. Sure some of the find ancestors names that are associated with the functions are a little scary (like widgets) but they are all easy to use. For most people within an hour they can do most things within WordPress, at least everything to get a decent looking site up that actually works, one of my buddies used it as a complete novice to put up this DUI laws site and on his second attempt the best wrinkle cream site both of which look pretty good for someone without any technical skills. Not to mention a site that the search engine’s can read and index. I’m not saying you can operate every bell and whistle inside one hour, not a chance, but you will get to grips with it and it’s dr who character building to have a little WP knowledge. If you can type a document in Word on to your PC monitors or something similar, or you can surf the net for cheap auto insurance you can bet your bottom dollar you can use WordPress.
One of the greatest aspect about WordPress, other than it’s free of course is that clever people make all sorts of add on’s and then let you use them for free there is even a car insurance plug in. Absolutely crazy I know, what other product can you buy and then get loads of extras free look what’s been achieved by the electronic cigarettes site with simple plug ins. Imagine buying a camera or 20th anniversary gifts or even solicitors indemnity insurance and then popping back every few days to ask for a new lens for free. Well that’s what you can do with WordPress the only difference is you don’t spend the cash, no prepaid credit card required, on WordPress in the first place so there is no requirement for online paid surveys. Totally amazing, there are so many add on’s there even one’s for the cheap car insurance industry. These add on’s are called plug in’s and ninety nine percent of them are free even the one for life insurance quotes, they’ve not come up with one that works in conjunction with accident claims but it wouldn’t surprise me if they did. You do have to be careful which one’s you choose as you don’t want to choose a plug in that’s of poor standard as it can make a mess of your whole site which will definitely give you hair loss treatment for men if it happens to you as it did the wartol guy, makes it an area of complexity, which had happened to one of our customers who had a stretch mark cream and payday loans site both that were over burdened with too may plug ins we corrected it and when he set up his acne treatment and NCLEX exam questions blogs it ran really smoothly because we advised him. As a side note we don’t offer any computer support so if you want quality service you will have to try somewhere else, we focus on what we are good at which is producing sites like the fitted wardrobes London one and this pretty one about auto loans. It’s also a good idea to only choose plug ins that have some kind of life cover support even if it’s from a user forum I know we fell foul of this with our electronic cigarette site and so did our buddy with the used Macbook and his buy backlinks WP site. Also if you google the plug in’s name you will usually get a good idea if it’s any good which is what we did for the e-commerce one for Siemens appliances. One other word of warning don’t go crazy with your plug in’s, I’ve seen people have ninety on their site but they are actually only using four of them, you want your site to load fast like breitling watches and not like the car insurance quotes online one so you have to use your scales to weigh up speed over functionality This does two things, takes up space at your host which costs money – using send load to Philippines or discount codes won’t help either – and slows your site down which your visitors won’t thank you for, in fact the iPhone deals site I talked about had a high bounce rate because of this issue, you need quick sites take a look at the speed of the one here about carpet cleaning it’s super fast and for eCommerce sites like this wedding photographers Sydney store and contractor accountants it’s vital to give a good user experience. So only install a plug in if you really need it and when you start put you should not need that many. For most sites three or four plug in’s should do the trick look at payday advance for instance. This will partly depend on the type of site you have, for instance with a krill oil blog or especially anything in the weight loss dieting market it’s good to have a spam capture plug in but you don’t need to worry about that if you don’t need comments which you wouldn’t have if you’re selling things right off the page as with this offering or a payday loan consolidation type site. Adding plug in’s to your site couldn’t be simpler. Just go to the left hand side to where is says “plug in’s”, click the down arrow to expand the box like the example on carpet cleaning london. Then simply click the add new icon which is directly below, just run a straight line like a Sydney carpet cleaning and you’ll see it, you will then be faced with a blank box where you can type either the name of the plug in you want, the author, type of plug in or the tags such as hcg drops or payday loan. So if you want the seo platinum plug in type the term in to the box and hit the search button, you’ll even find a plug in that helps the free iphone trade there. You will then be given a list of different plug in’s that fit that panic away description and you can either install it by hitting the install button or look at the details of the plug in, it is rumored that there will be a ppi claims one soon which would take the fat burning furnace and work from home ideas markets by absolute storm in the UK, it will knock that market right off their office chairs. The plug in concept is such a huge success you can see parallels between it and the apps market for mobile phone accessories and cell phone accessories if you are from the states. The plug in concept is exactly the same as the apps market that Apple has used to such great marketing effect, we all wish we could go back in time and buy stocks in Apple, releasing apps for everything as the slogan says even Lego pirates of the Caribbean sets style games and our app for scholarships for women. If you’ve never used the plug in before it’s well worth hitting the details button to get more information about the plug in and its capabilities ans see if it was featured on the bad credit car loans site. Usually here you get an idea of what the Iphone 5 plug in does, how many people have downloaded it, when it was last sql performance tuning updated and some reviews, you can see a good review here from christening plates. When it was last updated as it shows how active the developer is and if they know how to organize in terms of updates, if it’s not been updated for more than six months you may need to think twice about installing it so if like the old PPI one there is no posts don’t go there because like the kefir grains WordPress site these old plug ins can sometimes be hacked with disastrous consequences. Once you’ve checked it out you are ready to install so hit the install button so it goes into your sites file cabinets. This usually takes seconds to do and there will be an alarm monitoring icon if there is an issue so it won’t be a problem even for our clients with the buy WOW gold site, it is really easy to do. You will then be given the opportunity to activate the plug in which again is done with one click. You’ve now completed the plug in installation, some plug in’s have additional steps but these are few and far between most are ready to go out of the box so to speak. So there you have it a plug in chosen and installed in seconds and it’s so simple a child could do it in fact I let a teenager do it on wedding photographers in Kent. As I’ve said before the best thing is there is a plug in for everything even instant payday loans which in itself is incredible they can save you a fortune so you can waste the saved money on wicker furniture or the best wrinkle creams if you’re that way inclined, anything you want to do there is a plug in for it. So which plug in’s should you use, well it depend on your needs. Sorry I’m not being evasive but it really does depend on what you want your site to do. There are plug ins to make your site for members so they need passwords to get access, plug ins for ecommerce stuff, plug ins for ip checks, plug ins for Facebook likes, for reviews which you many of the wedding photographers in London use – as happens on the lake district site -, the list goes on and on. What I do suggest is getting a spam plug in if you are using it as a blog I personally had a the truth about abs blog and it was plagued by auto posters as was the running shoes forum, you also want an xml site map which helps google find your content. The only other plug in that is a complete must is some form of seo plug in as my buddy the attorney will testify to, sorry about the pun! Although Google seems to love WordPress sites they come with no seo functionality so you need something to do that task I use the seo all in one plug in on the diet solution program. And guess what free plug in’s come to the rescue once again. There are two great seo plug in’s that will do everything you want and more, the first is all in one seo pack and the other is platinum seo. Both allow you to give page titles, meta keywords, meta descriptions and a whole bunch of other stuff. Basically everything you need no matter how advanced you are. So get one of those seo plugs in’s and make sure you fill in those three crucial boxes.