WordPress is content management system focused on blog creation
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system (CMS). It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet.
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
Themes
- WordPress users may install and switch between themes. Themes allow users to change the look and functionality of a WordPress website or installation without altering the informational content. Themes may be installed by using the Wordpress "Dashboard" administration tool, cPanel or uploading theme folders via FTP. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations.
Plugins
- One very popular feature of WordPress is its rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install; WordPress has a database of over 17,000 plugins [11] with purposes ranging from SEO to adding widgets.
Widgets
- Widgets offer users drag-and-drop sidebar content placement and implementation of many plugins' extended capabilities. Users can re-arrange widgets without editing PHP or HTML code.
- Prior to WordPress 3.0, WordPress supported one blog per installation, although multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables. WordPress Multi-User (WordPress MU, or just WPMU) was a fork of WordPress created to allow multiple blogs to exist within one installation that is able to be administered by a centralized maintainer. WordPress MU makes it possible for those with a website to host their own blogging community, as well as control and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard. WordPress MU adds eight new data tables for each blog.
Mobile
- Native applications exist for Android, iPhone/iPod Touch, iPad, Windows Phone 7, and BlackBerry which provide access to some of the features in the WordPress Admin panel and work with WordPress.com and many WordPress.org blogs.
Other features
- WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters are also included, providing standardized formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes). WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or article.
Open Sistemas, Wordpress in high performance environments
Open Sistemas provides its highest value as Wordpress integrator in environments characterized by high performance needs - especially multisite, custom plugins development and system integration.
Open Sistemas excels in these cases as an integrator that through a complete offering, where advanced development capabilities go hand in hand with high experience in big systems, is able to design and deploy big corporate Wordpress environments.
Contact with us if you wish to obtain more information about our experience in Wordpress in corporate environments.
