For several years I’ve recommended the use of WORDPRESS (http://www.wordpress.org) to manage a blog and in some cases, a web site.

However, for my main blog site that deals with a lot of technical aspects, I’ve not used WORDPRESS –I’ve run p31.com (http://www.p31.com) without any help.  Just a html publisher to design the pages.

Last week I dropped all of that, and went to a WORDPRESS installation. It will take nearly the rest of the month to convert 645 posts from the original pages where were just HTML to Wordpress.

So, why did I wait so long? When I started the blog, I didn’t know about Wordpress. The day I started it the setup I wanted at blogger.com didn’t work, so I immediately went to my own design which took two years to develop.

Now it’s time to go the NEXT STEP and focus on content while leaving Wordpress to run the site.

So, what are the Wordpress advantages?

• Setup of RSS subscriber/feeds are automatic
• Site updates are sent to RSS automatically
• Even Google site makes are automatic
• The posts are geared to the search engines
• AND perhaps, another 100 reasons with all the pluggins that are available to handle everything from picture galleries to shopping carts

I strongly suggest that anyone with a site that runs like a blog use Wordpress.  Then anyone who wants a strong e-commerce site, use a CMS program like Joomla.

Now back to a lot of work…

Rich Sage