WordPress

WordPress is an open source blogging tool powered by PHP and MySQL. WordPress is commonly used for blog sites but it is often used as a Content Management System (CMS) with some customizations.It can also be converted into Social Networking portal with BuddyPress plugin installed.

Advantages

WordPress is most widely used blogging tool because of its user-friendliness, extensibility and simplicity. Here are main advantages of WordPress:

  • It’s open source and free
  • It can be installed and setup quickly
  • It is easy to host as it has very simple requirements
  • It can run under your own domain name with your own branding
  • It is Powered by PHP and MySQL which are most widely used and available systems
  • It has powerful admin panel which provides lot of features to operate the site easily
  • Interface is user-friendly and very easy to learn
  • It supports features like RSS/Atom feeds, trackbacks
  • It provides categorized blogging and also supports tags
  • It supports pages, customized navigation and sidebar widgets
  • Multiple websites can be created on single installation
  • WordPress can be customized to add custom post types and taxonomies
  • It can be converted to social networking site by installing plugin like BuddyPress
  • There are lots of plugins and themes available for WordPress
  • Themes can be modified easily to customize presentation layer of website
  • There is a large and active community of WordPress users and developers
  • Search engine friendly permalinks
  • Multiple categories
  • Comment moderation
  • XFN support
  • Atom support
  • Trackback on edit
  • Attach XML URIs to links
  • Movable Type import
  • Textpattern import
  • Plugin architecture
  • Custom fields
  • Sub-categories
  • Thumbnail creation
  • OPML import and export
  • Localization and Unicode support
  • Comment management tools
  • Post preview
  • RSS import
  • LiveJournal import
  • Ping more than one update service at once
  • Multiple Theme Support
  • Static Pages
  • Better Admin Interface
  • Dashboard
  • New TinyMCE Editor WYSIWIG
  • Import posts from RSS, Textpattern, Blogger, Movable Type
  • Image/File Uploading
  • User Metadata
  • User Roles and Capabilities
  • Improved Administration abilities via AJAX
  • Database Versioning
  • Theme preview via thumbnail (screenshot.png)
  • WordPress Database Backup Plugin
  • Akismet Spam Filter Plugin
  • Improved Import Functionality
  • Improved Posting speed
  • Auto-save to make sure not to lose a pos
  • New tabbed editor to allow to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing
  • The lossless XML import and export for easilymovingcontent between WordPress blogs
  • Spell checking in content editor
  • Search engine privacy option for optional ping or indexing by search engines like Google
  • Option to set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.
  • Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions.
  • Sub-category support in blogrolllinks
  • Redesigned login screen
  • More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster
  • Private and Draft pages
  • Improved admin panel to load faster and more visually consistent
  • Include all comments in comment feeds
  • Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages.
  • Upload manager to manage all uploads pictures, video, and audio
  • A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled.
  • Improved comment editing
  • Widgets (no longer a plugin but available under Presentation tab)
  • Deactivate Plugins automatically
  • New Blogger Import
  • Fewer clicks and better user experience for upgrades
  • Improved login accessibility
  • Improved UI when deleting Drafts
  • Improved clarity regarding “Spam it:” and “Delete it:” in comment notification e-mails
  • Tagging support
  • Categories to tag converter
  • Update notifications
  • Improved post and draft management
  • Pending review
  • Advanced visual editor buttons
  • Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard
  • Dashboard widgets
  • Multi-file upload with progress bar
  • EXIF extraction
  • Search posts and pages
  • Tag management
  • Concurrent editing protection
  • Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits
  • Google Gear support
  • Theme Previews
  • Image captions
  • Bulk management of plugins
  • A completely revampedimage control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing
  • Image control fully integrated with the WYSIWYG
  • Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries
  • Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security
  • New Admin panel interface
  • New dashboard can be arranged with drag and drop
  • Ability to install any plugin directly from admin panel with single click
  • Sticky posts
  • Comment threading
  • Paging
  • Customizable admin panel screen
  • Upgrade to new version with single click
  • Install themes from theme directory directly from admin panel
  • New CodePress editor with syntax highlighting to make edits or tweaks to themes or plugins
  • Completely redesigned the widget interface
  • Global undo/trash feature
  • Built-in image editor
  • Batch plugin update and compatibility checking
  • Easier video embeds
  • Includes new default theme “Twenty Ten”
  • New API to allow easily implementing custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus, post types and taxonomies
  • Merge of WordPress MU to allow multisite functionality on same installation
  • New lighter interface
  • Bulk updates allows upgrading multiple plugin at once with a single click
  • Lightning fast redesigned linking workflow
  • Admin bar
  • Streamlined writing interface hides many of the seldom-used panels by default to create a simpler and less intimidating writing experience for new bloggers
  • Post Formats support
  • New CMS capabilities like archive pages for custom content types
  • New Network Admin
  • Ability to perform advanced taxonomy and custom fields queries

Version History

Version 1.0 (January 3, 2004)

Version 1.2 (May 22, 2004)

Version 1.5 (February 17, 2005)

Version 2.0 (December 31, 2005)

Version 2.1 (January 22, 2007)

Version 2.2 (May 16,2007)

Version 2.3 (September 24, 2007)

Version 2.5 (March 29, 2008)

Version 2.6 (July 15, 2008)

Version 2.7 (December 10, 2008)

Version 2.8 (June 10, 2009)

Version 2.9 (December 18, 2009)

Version 3.0 (June 17, 2010)

Version 3.1 (February 23, 2011)

Our Expertise

We have very experienced developers having experience in different kind of website developed in WordPress. We have expertise in developing simple blog sites to highly customized content based website for online News or Magazines. We also have expertise in developing community based website using BuddyPress plugin.

Our developers are skilled to develop custom plugins and themes according to the requirements and also customizing or extending existing themes or plugins.

We have expertise not only in developing with WordPress application but also integrating WordPress blog or website with other web applications. For example: integrating WordPress blog with Magento e-commerce website.

Future Growth

Initially WordPress was used mostly for blogging. But since last few releases, more and more Content Management System (CMS) features are implemented in WordPress. With BuddyPress plugin, WordPress can also be used as Social Networking application.Eventually, WordPress would be one of the most powerful systems for content management.

Research and Development

Our team is always stays upbeat with latest improvements and changes as well as upcoming versions of WordPress.We encourage our team to spend certain amount of time to research around latest technologies.We regularly follow the blogs and articles written by experts around the world and discover latest techniques for improving WordPress application with better usability. Our developers do regular research on techniques to make WordPress applications more customizable and efficient.