Senior Project; Wordpress

Not quite a week, but close enough.
I'm already fairly well versed when it comes to Wordpress, having been using it off and on for a year, and this is the second time I've set it up locally (although truth be told I did need to look back on my old resources, but I didn't particularly need them in the end) but I guess this can be a "what is Wordpress", from the mouth of Morgan.

It seems to me to be geared towards bloggers mostly. There are ways to set up pages, but there are lots of settings related to blogging. Not that I mean ONLY bloggers can use it; companies such as Target, Disney, and Rovio use Wordpress.

On the customization side of things, which is likely why aforementioned companies use Wordpress, things are boundless. For as many apps there are on the iOS store or the Google Play store, there are just as many plugins, themes, widgets, and etc. for making Wordpress work for your goal. The defaults are surprisingly fine; the image above was made purely out of default images. Nothing outside of what you download is there.

This is how the customization tab, shown on each page of your site so you can easily change stuff that don't like right, without having to use the back arrow or finding it under the settings. It's a nice touch.

As for the themes, they are numerous, and it is incredibly easy to try something new.

From Appearance, you click Add New, and it brings up a browser for all of the different themes made by different people. It even features a "Preview" button, which displays a home page with the new theme. Click Install, and you can preview your own homepage in the new theme. Click Activate...

...and you are set.

All in all, Wordpress is a fair choice for any start-up developer or big time corporation, with options for both and with various knobs and buttons to use, making each version actually unique.

I look forward to seeing how Drupal works in comparison, and I look forward to reporting on my findings.