WordPress is often thought of as a platform for blogging, but having been around for a decade now, it’s come quite a long way. I’m tired of hearing people dismiss it as a platform, so I wanted to share just a few reasons we here at Needmore love it.<\/p>\n
For example, it’s designed to handle any kind of content. By default, it lets you use what it calls “pages” (just what you’d expect) and “posts” (which are what you’d think of as blog posts). But you can make others. In fact, we typically create a lot, from more standard types. A few examples:<\/p>\n
For each type of content, there are a million ways to customize and use them. You can add fields for images, galleries, maps and locations, extra text fields, and format how the links appear and precisely how Google will show these pages (complete with a preview).<\/p>\n
Like many content management systems, WordPress has the concept of a taxonomy<\/em>. By default, you have “category” and you have “tag”, but as you might suspect, we can create any number of these and apply them to any type of content. You can make up your own to organize content, and these categories can have images, text, be sorted different ways, and so on.<\/p>\n Taxonomies can have hierarchy. So you could have a top-level for the region, a second level for the year, and a third level for the season. Taxonomy “pages” can also have their own designs, and be mixed in throughout other pages, for an extremely flexible layout.<\/p>\n Not convinced? Here’s a bunch more reasons why we love using WordPress.<\/p>\nTen More Reasons<\/h2>\n
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