Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Let’s Deal With WordPress Developments

By: Nikola Jankovic

WordPress is known as one of the largest part influential open-source blogging platform, but it can be a lot more than just a blogging display place. We already know about using WordPress as a content management system, but it is much more flexible than that with the combination use of plugins, and hacks because it can also used in many distinctive and exceptional ways.

Moreover, WordPress has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing the code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for some highly developed customizations because the wordpress also features integrated link management; 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 that provide for proper formatting and styling of text in articles for example converting regular quotes to smart quotes that are also included. It also supports the track back and ping back standards for displaying links to other sites that have them linked to a post or articles. Finally, has a rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install.

It can be also deployed using various methods on a hosting environment, users have the option to download the current version of wordpress from there, and they can upload the source code and its dependence to their hosting environment. It can be installed via package management system or deploying ready-to-use wordpress appliance, which does not require any manual set up or configuration. It can be also installed thru the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, which installs wordpress on windows and IIS. The advanced users have the option to have wordpress downloaded to their server and consistently updated using SVN and this will allow users to remain updated easily.

A part from that a free hosting service such as WordPress offer users an easy way to deploy a wordpress blog online without having to install wordpress on your own web server and many shared web hosting services also offer automated wordpress installation through their control panel. Although there are multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables. Moving on, wordpress multi-user is a fork of wordpress created to allow multiple blogs to exist within one installation that is able to be administered by a centralized maintainer. Multi-user makes 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 and adds eight new data tables for each blog. It also provides to merge with wordpress as part of future release. In fact, Lyceum is another enterprise-edition of wordpress unlike wordpress multi-users stores all of its information in a set number of database tables. Take note that if you use Lyceum will teach you making body blogs in wordpress.