Comments on: WordPress Powered Websites – The Real Deal

By: kimberley

kimberley — Fri, 27 May 2011 01:59:03 +0000

Hi Alex,
I just created by first blog ever regarding my expertise in the fake tan business and I’m using wordpress with a premium theme. Being from a non-technical background I find that once you learn some of the tricks it’s a very flexible platform and you can make your site look like you employed an expensive web designer! I’m still learning about the whole blogging thing and I appreciate websites like yours which will help me expand me knowledge.
Thanks,
Kimberley

By: Ian R Clayton

Ian R Clayton — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:57:28 +0000

Aina: its likely a couple of years too late but thr are several booking plugins for WordPress. Try arcRes Bookings plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/pl.....ng-engine/

By: Ian R Clayton

Ian R Clayton — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:19:19 +0000

We have several difficulties with wordpress. The all-in-one SEO plugin, conflicts with manual entries. There are issues with the auto-blogging and we believe Google is flagging sites with auto-blogs that duplicated content. I suspect google Page Rank is depreciated with auto-blogging. We would have had a PR of 4 by now on this site if it was not on WP with AutoBlogs!! has anyone else had this experience?

By: alex stevens

alex stevens — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:56:33 +0000

hi thanks for the post. am web and graphics freelance designer and trainer in uganda.
wordpress is still new and virgin area here.
i did “www.bernascraftshop.com” with wp

steve

By: jonson

jonson — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:36:03 +0000

Great info. You have just convinced me to go to wordpress for my website re-design of my apartment rental business. I wasn’t aware of all the capabilities of WP even though I also run a blog. I also hadn’t considered the cost benefits of workingwith an existing environment. It makes so much sense! I love the idea of still being the one managing my own website.

Thanks also to Adrian from Rubiqube who has some awesome examples of WP website on his site.

Time to find a web design company!

By: Ted White

Ted White — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:29:20 +0000

I used to use Joomla but got turned on to WordPress by a friend of mine and haven’t looked back since. I would highly recommended WordPress over any other blogging software. Simply the best, imo.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:26:04 +0000

I’ve never been good at using HTML. WordPress is the only thing I use when creating websites.

By: Horeca Groningen

Horeca Groningen — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:47:02 +0000

Totally agree! I’m also a dedicated to wordpress designer and in my company we use it for the majority of our projects. We made some interesting experiments with it and i’m transforming it into a “scholarships search engine” and a “site of the day” website.

By: Dr. Martin McIntosh

Dr. Martin McIntosh — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:55:50 +0000

You are right-on about the power of WordPress.

You mentioned ‘productivity’ and ‘ease of use’ early in your article.

I had guy who was supposed to be a webby-guru tell me last week that “WordPress sucks, ‘out-of-the-box’ websites are no good.” He was building a website for some friends who own a small vineyard… and he had not put the site up after having the domain name for 11 months.

He was bragging to me about colors, graphics, ruby-on-rails, blah blah, and that all he had to do was flip the switch to make the site ‘go live’.

Yeah, granted, design, graphics, etc all count. It seems he got carried away with glitz and flash.

He forgot there is something very elegant about a simple site that works the way it should. Like WordPress.

The vineyard owners were understandably frustrated with his non-performance. So I told if it was that easy, flip the switch and show us the site… but it seems he still wasn’t quite ready.

So 4 days ago I literally threw together a WordPress blog for them. It has a ‘home’ page, an ‘about’ page, and 2 posts. It was indexed within 48 hours, and it was listed on first page of Google for two different keywords.

5 days after my WordPress site went live, it has 2 first-page-Google listings EACH, for two different keywords. Plus it is showing up in the number 2 spot when searching for a related regional association.

Not bad for a sucky, out-of-the-box product.

Meanwhile, wonder-boy’s site is still cannot be found.

Score another point for WordPress. I’m a fan, too.

Doc

By: Andrew Campion

Andrew Campion — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:18:45 +0000

Thanks also to Adrian from Rubiqube who has some awesome examples of WP website on his site.

Time to find a web design company!

By: Rainbow Skill

Rainbow Skill — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:36:57 +0000

Really nice site design. You really nicely explain Advantages of WordPress i completely agree with you. Thank you for the post.

By: Phuc, SEO Rocket

Phuc, SEO Rocket — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:19:15 +0000

Hmm… the Team of WordPress should spend more time in fixing Bugs, than in new projects, such as community systems. There are lots of bugs and exploits, that making tons of fun in updating a wordpress system. I recomment to use a good rule set for the apache server, when you´re going to run a wordpress blog.

Phuc

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By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:37:55 +0000

I am looking for a clean and ite magazine style theme for wordpress without too many function calls, any suggestions?. thanks in advance

By: alex

alex — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:56:05 +0000

great article. thank

By: Toby

Toby — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:16:42 +0000

Alex, this was a good read for me. I have subscribed to your RSS via feedburner I hope to get future updates.
Please send me good tips on my email. Thanks.
Virginia Land

By: Alex, Blogsessive

Alex, Blogsessive — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:03:49 +0000

Aina, the hotel has been using an external booking system for a long while, and we agreed to stick with it.

By: Aina

Aina — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:35:36 +0000

Hi, I’m a webdesigner in charge of a hotel’s webpage. I wanted to try wordpress as a cms, and the only thing I’m having second thoughts about is the booking system. Can you tell me if you used an available plugin (if so, its name), developed one yourself, or linked to a separate engine? Thanks

By: Alex, Blogsessive

Alex, Blogsessive — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:49:09 +0000

Thank you everyone for your comments and the kind word on the Caro Hotel website! Since some of you already work with WordPress as designers, I do invite you to share your project with us for other people to see what can be achieved with WordPress. Adrian We do have some catching up to do. Rest assured we'll get together soon enough. Oh, and nice work on that "financial project" of yours. Looks amazing! :) Bob WordPress is 10 times more upfront than Joomla or Drupal, at least from where I stand. Once you get to build a nice list of functions and classes to work with, WP will start to look more like a framework than a light-CMS, and so, it will ease up your future development. kunal, the upcoming QBKL website - which is ready but just needs a little bit more info added - is not going to be built on WP. Since we like to let our work speak for us, the website will be mostly a one page website containing all that we need to communicate with our clients. If you're looking for a clean design, I'd suggest Adrian's Corporate Sandbox. As a designer, just by looking at his theme I can see about a hundred ways to personalize the theme. Worth taking a look at. Also, do have a look at this collection of corporate WordPress templates. Theme Forest also has a good collection of really affordable WordPress themes, well structured based on their purpose.