WordPress has become so popular these days that most people are now familiar with the concept and most importantly, the major benefits to implementing a WordPress website or blog. A refresher, or perhaps for some this is new information, on why WordPress is the golden child of the website and blog world.
I’ve worked on many large corporate websites {Adobe.com, Mattel.com, BEA.com} over the last several years and can share firsthand that the caliber of intellect and skillset required to pull those off is immense. There are several different key roles that factor in to the ongoing design, production and maintenance of these sites. Most people would never even venture to dip a toe into the programming world. And that is precisely why I whole heartedly embrace, use and recommend WordPress. WordPress exemplifies what the programming world is truly about ~ community and innovation. There are a ton of programmers out there that absolutely *love* to program their little heart out and come up with the next bell and whistle or functionality solution. Most of them have side projects and donate much of their programming time simply because they love the challenge of it and truly want to share their work. If you’ve ever known a programmer well you know what I’m talking about ~ it’s an incredibly generous community. In my work with developers I have found them to be some of the most generous and kind people of the human race. But they are understated and so most people don’t know this about them. They are understated precisely because it is in their very nature to be so ~ they are constantly in their heads solving problems, not talking about them.
The way the WordPress community works is that you have this amazing group of highly motivated and passionate developers who absolutely love to contribute their talents, skills and knowledge to make the WordPress platform a better piece of software for all who use it. It’s like having an entire army of super talented developers working on your behalf to ensure that your core website software is top notch. Even large corporate web teams cannot compete with that, let alone the average business looking to market, educate and make money with their website. It has leveled the website playing field for small businesses in a way that was unheard of 5 years ago. These guys {and some gals! yay! go ladies!} contribute their programming brilliance to creating what WordPress is today. You do not buy WordPress ~ it is *FREE*. It is a core piece of software that you then build all your fancy pants designs upon {that’s what I do, the fancy pants part.} It is a true community in the sense of every word ~ these folks get together, come up with new ideas on how to make it better, start writing code, test it, solicit feedback and rinse and repeat until they have a great piece of software that they then release and make available to the world. WordPress people are *fanatical* ~ which is a good thing because it’s part of why you get a top quality piece of software on which to build your website or blog.
If this was the only reason I choose WordPress it would be good enough ~ in my next post however I’ll share another one.
Thanks for the fantastic insight.