Middle Ear Media

Knee Deep in WordPress

September 25th, 2009

In case you haven’t heard, Word­Press is a per­sonal pub­lish­ing sys­tem built on PHP and MySQL. In other words, it allows your site to be a dynamic, database-driven organ­ism. So rather than hav­ing a cou­ple sta­tic HTML pages sit­ting there get­ting dusty, your site can be built with PHP mod­ules which can be com­bined in many dif­fer­ent ways to dynam­i­cally gen­er­ate the HTML page seen in your browser. I’ll get into why that is so impor­tant in future posts.

Word­Press is licensed under the GPL and is an Open Source project. As an Open Source project, Word­Press has man­aged to gen­er­ate a huge com­mu­nity of users and devel­op­ers. This has helped it grow from a small project in 2003 to a mas­sively pop­u­lar blog­ging plat­form in 2005 and now to a full blown Con­tent Man­age­ment System.

I’ve only been design­ing for Word­Press for about one year, but in that time, I’ve seen dras­tic improve­ments as new ver­sions were released. As I write this, ver­sion 2.8.4 is the lat­est and great­est. As a cus­tom Word­Press Theme devel­oper, I have come to be inti­mately famil­iar with most of it’s fea­tures. I’ll be talk­ing about Word­Press a lot so check back soon or bet­ter yet, grab the RSS feed or sub­scribe by Email.

Tags: blog, Blogging, CMS, Content Management System, GPL, HTML, MySQL, Open Source, PHP, publishing, RSS, WordPress, WordPress Themes

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