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WordPress Blog Review
Setup WordPress was easy to setup, as with most packages. Unlike others, WordPress has a free offering, as well as a for fee offering. My experience spans the only the free offering.
Layout Just like others, WordPress offers some pre-designed templates to choose from. Although, there were several to choose from, the layouts were very similar. I choose the default, because it was the cleanest and most simple layout. There is also way to customize the look and feel by modifying the custom image header or sidebar widgets or CSS Stylesheets. Although, you might need to acquire some programming knowledge for some of these features.
Publishing Creating a post is easy. There’s a window where you type your content. My only complaint is the default edit window should be larger. There's a small area in the lower right hand corner of the edit window, when clicked will expand the window. Unfortunately, I didn't figure that out right away. Argh! I could have saved a lot of frustration by finding that earlier. It has a nice feature that shows you regular view or html view, whichever you’re most comfortable with. That’s convenient, for those who know what to do with html. I did not notice a way to post by sending an email to your blog. Perhaps they saved that feature for the fee version.
Categories When you create a post, you can specify a particular category. This helps your readers find your post. You can add multiple categories to a single post. It’s as easy as checking a box before you publish. Easy as pie!
Statistics WordPress is awesome in this department. They not only tell you how many people have viewed your blog, but they give you more details. For example, they tell about the referrers and search engine terms, so you know where the people are coming from and what they’re using to find your site. That’s neat! On the Blog Stats page they also tell you which post is giving you the most hits, so you know what topic generates the most views. Very cool!
Syndication Not only does WordPress automatically convert your content to XML feed, it provides stats on it too! Increase traffic to your site by giving your content feed to webmasters to use on their website. Free advertising, everyone can use it!
Comments Of course, your readers can post comments on each of your posts. They have a comment moderator feature. If you choose to review the comments before they appear on your blog, you can. WordPress also provides a convenient way to track all the comments you have made on other people’s blogs.
Search WordPress feature called Tag Surfer is their version of search. You enter all the various words you would search by, then it provides you a list of blogs using those words. It’s kind like a filter displaying only blogs relating to what you requested via the Tags you identified in Tag Surfer.
Import This is truly a time saving feature! If you already have a blog with some other company and have not be happy with the service, check out WordPress’ import feature. You can move your data from LiveJournal, TypePad, or Blogger right into WordPress with just a few clicks. It was easy!
Spam WordPress is unique here. They offer spam protection by monitoring your blog and automatically blocking known spam offenders. The function works by default, and gathers the spam in a hold placing where you can review and delete as often as you’d like. WordPress is looking out for your best interests!
Links Blogroll is the name for links in WordPress. There’s a place to add a link on your blog to point to the blogs you like. You can even import a list of links from a file, if that’s easier for you. More convenience!
To review, we discuss how easy WordPress is to create, to use, and to customize. We also talked about features like importing, detail statistics and spam control which are not available in other free blog solutions. WordPress is definitely a program I would highly recommend for any and all of your blogging needs. It’s very well rounded feature set will meet your needs. Just imagine how nice the fee version must be!
To find out more about blog options, see my other article “How to Choose the Right Blog for You” posted at http://www.ideamarketers.com.
Copyright Elizabeth Marks, author of ThinkOnIt Devotions, has a heart for helping others grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ. Do you need encouragement? Visit http://www.ThinkOnitDevotions.com today for daily devotions, book reviews, favorite websites and more!
WordPress is a free program that provides blogging capability. Before you jump in and visit http://wordpress.com/, learn from my experience with this tool. You might save some time by avoiding my mistakes.
© Elizabeth Marks has 20+ years of business experience in sales, marketing, operations, Six Sigma, Strategic Planning, SharePoint Administration, and SEO. She enjoys sharing her knowledge to benefit others. As founder of ThinkOnIt Bible Ministries, she also has a heart for encouraging you with God’s Word. Visit us today at http://www.ThinkOnIt.org.
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