While WordPress is probably one of the most popular blogging platforms in the world, many people only see it as a cheap or free blogging platform without actually knowing the advantages that come with using it. Being open source, WordPress brings along series of advantages starting with the fact that a lot of functionalities are regularly updated by the WordPress developers. Comments, posts, galleries and other elements of the blog will suffer changes over time and they will benefit from the latest technologies.
The content management system is one of the most important advantages you get from using your WordPress platform. You will be able to easily add new content including videos, pictures and products to your blog whenever you want. It is a very simple process that can be learnt in a matter of minutes by even the less Internet savvy persons. Being easy to use is very important especially because many people want to start their own blogs and they do not want to spend a lot of hours learning how to use the blogging platform.
There is a search mechanism that superficially resembles Google that searches for words as the user types them in. This is called Dave’s WordPress live search mechanism. There is yet another search mechanism that facilitates multi-level navigation with drop down menus in a hierarchical format. This is referred to as multi-level navigation. WP search Plug-ins aid in advanced search features – as search features provided by WordPress were rather limited.
The ‘search everything’ navigation add-on helps widen the range of page numbers and tags which were previously limited in number. WP-pagination refers to numeric pagination which was primitive initially by referring to posts as simply old or new. This feature allows selection of page by its number.
A tree like format for hierarchical navigation is provided by the WP-dtree, which allows collapsible menus in a particular order selected by the user.
Any software product has to keep up with changing needs and requirements according to the rate of evolution of the other software products. The software industry has one of the highest rates of turnover and any software package that is not able to adapt itself rapidly is headed towards extinction. By reinventing itself, WordPress has displayed its adaptability.
WordPress features were rather limited initially, but with several add-ons in the form of plug-ins, many of these shortcomings have been rectified to a large extent. The plug-ins have aided in enhancing the quality of the WordPress interface and in expanding the scope of WordPress navigation abilities. These are some of the available extra plug-ins.
Carousel Gallery
The original gallery offered by WordPress is a stationery one and jQuery features allow the static gallery to be transformed into a flip-able one to the user’s advantage.
Admin trim interface
This plug-in helps in managing clutter in the administration interface and helps to arrange and delete unwanted items. The user can
U1 labs
This refers to a backend interface of WordPress and U1 experiments. This feature helps with status of posts like drafted or pending posts.
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