Michael Pollock

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Michael D. Pollock is the CEO of Solostream. He's a geek-at-heart and a small business veteran with over 12 years of in-the-trenches sales, marketing and entrepreneurial experience (he mistakenly thinks he may soon have it all figured out). You can contact Michael via email here or online here.

WordPress: The Premier Publishing Platform for Web 2.0 Solopreneurs

By Michael Pollock in WordPress

I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to make the switch, but after playing with WordPress for a few days, I’m head-over-heels in love with it. As it turns out, the latest version of WP (2.0) is about to be released, and I’ve been using the beta version until that happens.

Let me preface this by saying WP is not for everyone. If you’re not a tinkering, learn-as-you-go type of person, you might want to stick with one of the hosted services like Typepad (eeeyuck) or the hosted version of MoveableType (yawwwn). If however, you want a powerful, publishing platform that gives you an enormous amount of functionality, you won’t do better than WordPress.

Perhaps the best feature of WP is the community of tech savvy developers and Web 2.0 entrepreneurs that comes along with it. From The Famous 5-Minute Installation all the way through to modifying and extending WP’s functionality, the documentation is simply amazing. Check out some of these subject areas in the WordPress Codex:

And not only that, if you can’t find an answer to your question in the Codex somewhere, there’s also a very vibrant support forum that’s more than happy to field your question.

I’ll write more later, but in the meantime, if you have a sense of adventure, go take a look at WordPress. Maybe even download it and do a test install to see if it’s something you want begin using. Just have a little patience as you negotiate the learning curve of any new application. I think ultmately, you’ll be happy you did. I certainly am.

4 Comment(s)

  1. On Dec 27, 2005, Blaine Moore (Run to Win) said:

    I switched to WordPress 4 or 5 months ago (from b2evolution) and I really like it. I have not had a look at wordpress 2.0 yet.

  2. On Dec 27, 2005, Traci said:

    I’ve been using WP for a few months now myself. I agree - awesome!! I’m getting ready to implement WP into a client’s existing web site design - I love that flexibility WP has.

  3. On Sep 17, 2006, Coffee said:

    What about the security issues that some say WordPress is supposed to have?

    http://www.swiftblogger.com/?id=blythe

  4. On Sep 29, 2006, gourmet flavored coffee said:

    Actually, I use WP blogs on a lot of my sites as well. But what you said is true. If you do not want to play around with the settings and templates, standard blogging platform like blogger and typepad would be a better option.

    For a more robust CMS, you might want to consider Joomla as well.

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