WordPress Development

WordPress started as a simple, free, open source web blog. From these humble beginnings, WordPress grew rapidly as numerous enthusiastic users developed its potential, expanding features far beyond simple blogging. A WordPress website can be like a blog or not as suits. All the comments and dates can be removed, it can be customised and modified until it is fit for the client's purpose.

WordPressdashboardThe graphic above shows the WordPress dashboard from which a WordPress web site can be controlled. One can easily create Posts, Pages(Pages are static posts), Categories, links and tags. But all this can be done with no web design knowledge. It's very easy to add web content via the WordPress Interface. The power of the internet is within its unrivalled ability to react rapidly, creating new fresh content as circumstances change.

Themes are the CSS code and PHP pages that make the WordPress websites. The data is stored in the MySQL databases on the web space. The key for WordPress development is identifying a theme that fits with the websites purpose and then developing it to suit the client's purpose. WordPress theme development involves a lot of testing on other systems and browsers. There are quite a few free themes which one can download, but the problem here is the quality of free WordPress themes can vary a lot. The same is true of the plugins, whilst free is good, it is not always the best quality. Fortunately for a little money high quality plugins and themes can be purchased which can then be used as a base to develop a website. Alternatively a WordPress theme can be created from scratch.

Why is WordPress so good?

  1. FREE to download/(cost for hosting)
  2. Manage users and privileges
  3. It's an Open system
  4. CMS (Content Management System)
  5. Extendable
  6. Easy to Use
  7. Modular
  8. Self Control
  9. SEO friendly
  10. Plug ins
  11. Themes

What types of WordPress hosting?

What does one need to get WordPress going?

There are several requirements:- because it is database-based, a faster server is preferred. :-)

WordPress can be installed and hosted for you here are some examples

Advantages of this type of hosting