WordPress
WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) that enables users to create, manage, and publish digital content without needing to code. Initially launched in 2003 as a blogging platform, WordPress has evolved into a versatile CMS that powers many websites, from small personal blogs to large corporate sites. Its core features include:
- User-friendly Interface: WordPress is designed with a focus on usability, making it accessible for users with any level of technical skill. The dashboard allows for easy navigation, content creation, and site management.
- Themes and Customization: Users can change the look and feel of their website using themes. Thousands of free and premium themes are available, many of which are customizable to meet specific design requirements.
- Plugins: WordPress extends its functionality with plugins, allowing users to add features such as contact forms, SEO tools, social media integration, etc. The plugin repository offers over 58,000 free plugins, with thousands more premium options.
- Responsive Themes: WordPress themes are generally responsive, meaning they automatically adjust to look good on any device, from desktops to smartphones.
- Multilingual Support: WordPress supports multilingual sites either natively or through plugins, enabling the creation of websites in multiple languages.
- Media Management: Users can easily upload and manage media files (images, videos, etc.) using the drag-and-drop media uploader. WordPress also offers basic image editing features.
- Content Management: It provides tools for creating and managing content, including posts, pages, and custom post types, along with categories and tags for organizing content.
- User and Role Management: WordPress includes a built-in system for managing users, allowing site owners to assign roles and permissions to control access to different parts of the site.
- Security and Updates: Regular updates are released to enhance security and introduce new features. WordPress also supports SSL certificates for encrypted connections and various security plugins to protect against common threats.
WordPress’s flexibility, scalability, and extensive community support have made it a go-to choice for creating and managing websites. WordPress offers comprehensive tools to build and maintain a professional online presence, whether for a small personal project or a large enterprise solution.
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Content Marketing
WordPress.com? Here is why I would use it first.
WordPress is one of the major blogging platforms available and comes in two forms, WordPress.com and WordPress.org. First form, WordPress.com, is a commercial service that offers free and paid blogging tools (using WordPress of course) on the web. WordPress.com uses the software as a service model (a.k.a. SaS), maintaining the blogging software tools and taking care of things like security…
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Content Marketing
Manage Multiple Instances of WordPress with ManageWP
We’ve literally signed 3 more WordPress clients in the last week and the demand continues to grow. As we continue to manage and monitor our clients’ sites, it’s time that we started looking for a system to help make it much more efficient. ManageWP is an all-inclusive WordPress management console that gives users full power and complete control in managing…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Enterprise Social Media Management from Syncapse
In an enterprise corporation engaged in social media, there’s a ton of activity. From support and sales conversations to marketing and promotions, conversations need to be properly routed, quickly responded to, and assured that they are handled properly. Almost every week we hear of another major corporation that accidentally publishes an embarrassing tweet because they lacked any command and control…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Using Pinterest to Engage Users and Backlink To Improve Organic Rankings
Pinterest has become the newest big thing in social networks. Pinterest, and others, like Twitter and Facebook, grow a user base faster than the users can learn how to use the service, but a huge user base means that ignoring the service is foolish. It’s an opportunity to grow your brand. We’re using Pinterest at WP Engine, so I’ll be…
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Content Marketing
Don’t Blame the CMS, Blame the Theme Designer
This morning I had a great call with a potential client about their inbound marketing strategies. They mentioned that they were meeting with a firm to develop their website. I had noticed prior to the call that they were already on WordPress and asked if they would continue using it. She said absolutely not and said that it was terrible……
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Add Social Media Profiles to Your WordPress Theme
WordPress offers user profiles with settings for social links; however, additional social sites offer opportunities for your entire site or blog to have a presence within those networks. We were working on a client site this week where we wanted to make it easy for them to set and add their site’s social links, so we added additional options to…
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Content Marketing
MyRepono: A Simple, Affordable Offsite WordPress Backup Plugin
I didn’t have a WordPress backup plugin for quite a while. So… the first time that I lost my WordPress database was a nightmare! It was my fault… I was making some updates to the database and dropped the entire database by accident. I was wondering how in the world I would recover my blog posts since I didn’t have…
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Content Marketing
The Message Produces Results
When we’re marketing, a lot of times, we think solely about the results. I want to convert this many prospects, we want people to be aware of Product X, I want this many retweets/shares, etc. Don’t get me wrong, it is definitely important to track these things in order to know if our marketing message are working. However, I have…
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Content Marketing
WordPress .htaccess Rules Have Exceptions, Too
WordPress made a major evolutionary step forward in the blogging platform, moving it closer to a full-fledged content management system with revision tracking, more support for custom menus, and–the most intriguing feature for me–multi-site support with domain mapping. If you are not a content management system junkie, it’s okay. You can skip right past this article. But for my fellow…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Five Business Phone Practices That Damage Your Brand
Running a small business is difficult and stressful. You are constantly wearing multiple hats, putting out fires, and trying to make every dollar stretch as far as possible. You are focusing on your website, your finances, your employees, your customers, and your brand and hoping you can make good decisions every time. Unfortunately, with all the directions small business owners…
