Wordpress: An Incredibly Powerful Blogging system!

Wordpress is your simple and easy way to set up a blog with minimal programming requirements. Wordpress gives you a plethora of themes, theme resources, and the ability to use images, and various blog designs and layouts. I can elaborate all day about the basic features and benefits of Wordpress, but I have to admit that most of us use Wordpress for one
simple reason.

We use Wordpress to make money.

Here's a quick example of how Wordpress can change the way you blog forever:
You have a few websites and already are earning some decent money from them so you have a full time programmer on retainer. You've heard about Wordpress and how it would allow you to set up your blogs with little or no effort.

You like the idea but don't want to pay the programmer so you decide to tackle it yourself. It's easy to downloaded the pages and open an FTP connection to your website. You then uploaded the documents and set up the database connection. Within minutes,
you are working with a Wordpress setup on your website. It was that easy.

You can now set up all the theme, feeds, and template tags you need. All done within an hour. After this, you would simply copy this setup to other websites and change the header information to the match requirements at your other websites. You accomplish
all this in less than 30 minutes. Best of all you didn't need to take up your programmer's
valuable time. You can then go on to embed Google Adsense ads and other
advertising in the blogs. A few strategically placed links on pages that are already indexed and your blogs are up and running!

Wordpress and high-end blogging tools like it can simplify the arduous process of
setting up a blog or blogging system.

Wordpress is VERY easy.

1) Instructions (Read them!)

2) Download the package. You should download the Wordpress tools and
extract them from the website package.

3) Create a website to upload the Wordpress tools to. I used a reseller website.
This means I have more than 10,000 domains I can upload to and more than
1000 sub-domains I can use for every top-level domain. I get all this for
$33.00 USD per month. (www.redfoxhosting.com)

4) Upload the Wordpress files

5) Go to your website www.yourwebsite.com (index.php is the default page
that Wordpress opens to)

6) Go to your website and pull the MySQL database information (a)
Username, (b) Password, (c) Server Information [This information will be
available in your database control panel.]

7) Go to the website and answer the questions on your database (When you
start Wordpress on your website, it will ask you to answer several
questions, answer those questions with the database information from #6.

8) Input your set up information, and set up the links and layouts of the
website.

Have you ever used blogger? I am referring to www.blogger.com. Blogger.com and
LiveJournal.com are some of the best-known blogging websites on the internet.

Unfortunately there is one MAJOR drawback, you don't own the website. At any
time blogger can delete your username and profile. Lots of work and effort poured
into someone else's websites is not what you want to do. It is not in your best
interest. This is the perfect example of how no business built on Blogger or
LiveJournal.com is actually yours.

These blogs generated income in the order of about $500 -$3350 per month. This income included a collection of Adsense and Commission Junction revenue. Unfortunately, both Blogger.com and LiveJournal.com reserve the right to kick you off. Only a website put together with your own pages affords you a viable business that you own. You should
never put your business and hours and hours of your work into a website you do
not own and cannot control.

There are also not a million other files for you to upload. This system is easy to
download, and easy to upload to your own personal websites. Wordpress is built to
W3C standards for XHTML and CSS. These features make Wordpress code easier
to manage and easier to render in standards-compliant browsers. Non-compliant
browsers are made compliant with only a few changes.

Wordpress websites also have some very positive features like themes, non compiling
changes to the website and the ability to utilize plugins. The most positive factor in the Wordpress utility is that you do not need to know php. With many blogging systems you often need to know how to program. With Blogger, you can spend hours embedding Google ads in the pages. Also when you make changes you have to recompile the script or "rebuild" it. This takes time while you wait. Imagine how much time you can spend "rebuilding" dozens of blogs! In each blog you modified each blog and linked it to your central website. Linking blogs that get regular traffic is a technique called "hub and spoke" theory.

In this scenario, you have to see how you can arrange your blogs to produce traffic
for a central website. This is an excellent tool to produce income for your business. Wordpress has the potential to be the perfect tool for your business to generate an average level of traffic to a central website.

The relative advantages are:

1) You don't have to know php.

2) You don't have to know how to program at all.

3) You don't need to use the Wordpress hosting service. Although this is
offered, it is not necessary.

4) Wordpress has aggregator support for standard RSS configurations. This
has already been done with Atom.

5) Wordpress automatically connects and configures with MySQL with
virtually no effort.

6) Being built to standards increases Wordpress's longevity and future internet
adoption

7) Wordpress automatically imports images.

8) The Wordpress template has built-in links added in the template.

9) Wordpress allows for the customization of metadata.

10) Wordpress allows customized styling for printing.

11) Wordpress allows the administrator to design headlines.

12) Wordpress allows for categories.

13) Wordpress allows for customization of the sidebar.

14) Wordpress allows for customized RSS Feeds.

15) Wordpress allows for customized forms.

16) Wordpress allows for basic blogging posts.

17) Wordpress allows archiving for posts.

18) Wordpress allows for contacts in the template.

19) Wordpress allows for an "about" page.

20) Wordpress allows for the styling lists and is built with CSS.

I wanted to show you the basics of wordpress and I hope it was done.

So I do hope you have enjoyed this lesson and you continue on to the next, which is wordpress installation.