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May 20th, 2011 - by Mohamed Adel
WordPress is the most popular blog publishing application, and it was originally designed for bloggers. And because of its success as blog application now it became used as content management system as well. WordPress has a lot of good features like as plugins or add-ons support, and templating capability.
Where can I find WordPress plugins?
Basically WordPress comes with no plugins installed to it, but you can easily find plaugins and add-ons for free, but do you know what is WordPress plugin or add-on?
WordPress plugins is a piece of code which extend the capability of WordPress to enable a feature which is not originally added to WordPress, and it almost enables you to do anything you can imagine.
Where can I find these plugins?
Finding a proper plugin for WordPress is very easy, all you have to do is just go to http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/ and you will be able to find the plugin you are looking for by browsing the categories, and the most interesting part of it, it is all for free.
WordPress requirements
WordPress is based on PHP which is almost installed to any hosting server; this means that you can install WordPress within almost any hosting server. All you have to do is to make sure about the following:
- PHP support at your hosting: as mentioned previously WordPress is based on PHP, which means that you must be able to run PHP scripts on your server to have a successful installation of it.
- Database server: mainly WordPress is being installed on MySQL server, which is also capable at most of hosting companies.
- File Permissions: to gain a successful installation of WordPress, you must make sure about the files and folders permissions, basically you will not need to set these permissions, but sometimes it’s required for some plugins to work properly.
WordPress features and positive sides
Free Stuff
WordPress originally comes with very basic things like limited themes and plugins, but if you are looking to extend its feature and having your specific look and feel you will not face any troubles, because most of WordPress stuff can be found easy for free whether it is plugins or themes.
Customizing look and feel of WordPress
If you want to have your own PSD website design implemented to WordPress, first you should know how the design will be implemented. Customizing WordPress look and feel is called themes. Simply the theme is the same of your HTML codes converted, but with some PHP codes within it. In WordPress you are creating a number of themes (Index, single post, page, archives, etc) all of them have almost the same codes, but with changes according to the item theme itself.
Easy to understand control panel
WordPress comes with a very strong control panel; within this control panel you can control almost anything within your website, although it doesn’t look the same like your website, but it is easy to understand.
Friendly URLs and Permalinks
WordPress has a great feature which is being called permalinks or permanent links, within this feature you can handle how you want the URLs to look like. This really helps in obtaining good SEO friendly and human friendly URLs without any additional plugins or add-ons to WordPress.
Community support
WordPress forums have great resources to help you to get most of it. Within this forum you can find almost anything related to WordPress, from first time using WordPress to how to install it, and how to create your own theme, or plugin.
WordPress negative sides
Although WordPress is a great application but it has a number of shortages which will describes below:
Look and feel separation
WordPress is a great tool but one of the less negative sides of it is the separation of look and feel. While you’re working on the backend you will not be able to see what you’ve accomplished unless you open another browsing window to see what the effect of your change.
Using WordPress as content management system
Although of the success of using WordPress as content management system, but it still has some shortage. In using a CMS you will need some additional features to be enabled like news portion or events calendar, which is complicated to accomplish within WordPress. Also you’ll find it some sort of complicated to focus only on pages.
Dynamic Areas, and specific plugin using
It is kind of complicated to install a dynamic piece of content within a specific area unless you determine it in the theme itself, for example this means that you will not be able to place a content rotator beneath the content within a specific page unless you create another template and use it.
Conclusion
WordPress is blog publishing software, and also it can be used for limited websites as content management system, but because of its strong community support and free stuff it can be considered as one of the best applications made ever.
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