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Know About WordPress Themes
By Randy R on January 3, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes
Know About WordPress Themes
It is an age where people of all age are into blogging. A lot of people today not just write blogs but also promote and earn money from blogs. The most popular application used by people for blogging is WordPress. It is an open source blog publishing application which is powered by PHP and MySQL. Considered to be extremely user friendly and having the facility of advanced template system, making it easy to use.
WordPress is pretty popular among all the age groups because of the fact that it’s easy to access new themes or rather change the appearance of the blog at the click of a mouse. There are a lot of websites that offer free WordPress themes to make the blog look good and match the content written in it. Similarly one can also find a number of WordPress templates which help in making the work of writing the blog easier. Since the template is already present, all one needs to do is type in the content and the blog is ready. There are also a number of sites that help in designing your own WordPress themes.
WordPress application can also be used as a Content Management System (CMS). CMS is a document centric application which is used to manage documents. This system is used in managing the documents especially websites and web content. This system is extremely flexible and hence quite a favorite among people. There are quite a few people who are already using WordPress as a CMS. This system also allows using different looks for different categories. Using custom templates helps in changing the content and look of the different categories on the page.
Changing it into CMS helps in customizing the administration panel as well the themes. WordPress normally has the posts arranged chronologically but with CMS this control lies in the hands of the user. CMS also makes it possible to add multimedia files like pictures, videos etc. to the WordPress CMS site. To enhance the interactivity, one can also add elements to the site. This is not all; one can also add mailing lists to the site and also enhance e-commerce by adding advertisements to the WordPress CMS site. These sites help in controlling the administrator’s rights or user’s roles. This means one can control their multiple accounts and comments too. On WordPress CMS sites one can have multiple plugins which will help enhance the website.
Using WordPress as a CMS gives the user freedom to use the website as per his preferences. The use of CMS helps in keeping the website in good shape and also makes sure that the website doesn’t get monotonous. The various themes are the solution to that. All in all, using it as a Content Management System makes the entire process of blogging more flexible, easy and fun to use. With the plugins and other elements that can be added one can be assured that the website is very effective in conveying the purpose. Combining it with CMS not only makes the website worthwhile but also very effective.
PHP Programmers, the Best Foil in the Customizing of Your WordPress Website
By Randy R on October 13, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes
PHP Programmers, the Best Foil in the Customizing of Your WordPress Website
What is the best thing to do when you need to have a website for your own? You can always take the one from the wordpress. It provides you with the basic website structure and all that you need to start it. But as time passes and you need to do some enhancements in your site then you look for the plugins available there. But not all the plugins are of your help as they are for the general use and not for the specific one and so is the case with the themes and templates. At times you may not be happy with the available themes and templates and want some changes in them and you need to do some changes as per your needs. What do you do?
The solution is quite simple. You can take help of any one who has the expertise in this field. This may be a company or an individual. If you go for a company the chances are that you will have to pay a hefty amount for even a simple plugin. So it is better to go for the second option. And here comes the man you know as the freelance programmer. This freelance web developer who is expert of this task has solution to all your problems and he can fix the things for you. He is not only a wordpress plugin developer but he can also create the custom wordpress themes and custom wordpress templates for your website and will give your website a whole new look.
Usually PHP is considered the best language among the languages that are used in the website development and the basic reason behind this fact is its smoothness. It is easy to learn and does not make your web page heavy and it takes relatively less time to load. The PHP programmer is usually acquainted with the other supporting things as My SQL, apache and Linux as they all combined together make a website. And what an interesting thing they all are open source or you can say free.
The reason the most of the PHP is good in unison with wordpress is that the plugins in wordpress are mostly designed in the PHP scripting language and a wordpress developer knows it well. The smoothness of the PHP can be understood by the fact that the facebook application developers chose it over other languages to design the interface of facebook and the pages run smooth, you all know.
Along with the development of new websites, PHP is the perfect foil in the creation of the website clones, website cloning, which is becoming popular nowadays is usually done in PHP, and is one reason for the growth of the freelance PHP developers.