Want to recommend WordPress, need some good talking points
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I don’t have extensive familiarity with WordPress, but I’ve spent a LOT of time with other blogging software (esp. Movable Type) Everytime I turn around somebody says something nice about WP. I have a client that I’d like to use WP with and before I pitch it, I’d like to have a few key points to sell WP over other platforms. It’s pretty much up to me, but it’s nice to be able to say things, like “it’s one of the most popular” and stuff like that….you get the idea.
Thanks in advance…looking forward to setting up the WP blog.
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Hi coolpillows, so love the name. :)
Here is the link to the features of wordpress.COM blogs that we all get the use of and enjoy.
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I have had only a short experience with wordpress, I have 4 blogs running, two on wordpress.com and the other two on wordpress.org. The system feels user friendly and upgradable. Still finding my feet and as I have not tried other blog systems it is hard to compare. Why not test the wordpress.com first before you subject your client the the wordpress.org on your website. Test first before you buy. It could save you a lot of time later.
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I’ve been in the blogosphere for 6 years and have used wordpress software for 4 years. I’m also a Tumblr and Blogger (blogspot) blogger and have no hesitation when it comes to recommending wordpress software, as it’s superior to the others.
I have a client that I’d like to use WP with and before I pitch it, I’d like to have a few key points to sell WP over other platforms.
Presumably your client has little or no blogging experience and may have a commercial intent for the blog or an expectation of earning income from advertising. If this is so then the best recommendation is for your client to purchase a domain and begin blogging on free hosted wordpress.com, until he or she has developed the skill sets required to independently maintain a self hosted wordpress.org sotfware install. At that point the client would then hire a web host, get a free software install from wordpress.org, export the contents out of the wordpress.com blog into the wordpress.org blog.
Many people are confused when it comes to the differences between free hosted blogging on wordpress.com and self hosted blogging on free standing wordpress.org software. So prior to reading on I urge you click this link and be clear on those differences http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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That being said if you want to find some “selling points” you don’t have far to go. You can can read and recommend Blogger Sucks: WordPress Rocks! as it contains a feature by feature comparison of the two largest free hosted blogging platforms.
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Thanks all! I’m pretty much going to ‘ghostwrite’ the blog, so it’s generally up to me. All I have to do is point the client to a web page now and then where they can enter a topic, a post and click submit.
Never was a fan of Blogger and this doesn’t require Drupal or anything like that. Likely, this will go straight to a WordPress.org hosted arrangement. It’s just odd that something ‘.org’ would be the one where you do commercial things like advertising and the “.com” space would be not commercial. But hey, that’s just semantics. I got it.
Thanks again!
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@coolpillows
As you can see by reading the “advertising” entry from the support documentation I linked to above there are restrictions on wordpress.com blogs. There is an internal link in that support entry to types of blogs allowed and not allowed http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/ Another difference between wordpress.com blogs and wordpress.org software installs is that wordpress.com is a multiuser blogging platform where there is no FTP access to blogs and no plugins. In order to preserve securty these restrictions are also in place http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/You’re welcome. :)
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way back, when i wrote first posted this and the client didn’t know what they wanted, i almost understood the wordpress.ord/.com distinction. then i got involved in 200 other things and forgot everything. the client is still mulling over whether they want a blog and if they want to pay me and nonsense like that. but i’m thinking about making my own domain be entirely wordpress-driven.
i have a domain hosted through yahoo small business which i’ve had for years: http://www.coolpillows.com. yahoo offers wordpress, which means, <i>i think</i> they are offering the ‘wordpress.org’ situation. i can see from my FTP access under the blog directory I’ve created, I have 3 directories: wp-admin, wp-content and wp-includes.
before i go and post some dumb(er) questions about a wordpress blog, i want to make sure that i’m in the right place. this place is for wordpress.com, correct? if i want my domain to be all wordpress-enabled at coolpillows.com that would be a wordpress.org thing right?
sorry for the bafflement.
thanks in advance all………
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Yes this is wordpress.com.
WordPress.com is a hosted blog service. You do not have to download software, pay for hosting or manage a web server. There are code restrictions, restrictions on the types of blogs allowed, and restrictions on advertising. WordPress.com does not permit FTP access and uploading themes or plugins into its free hosted blogs
WordPress.org is free software with FTP access. You can install themes and plugins, run ads, and edit the database. Read more about the differences here > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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thanks timethief. that article sums it up perfectly. and i believe i’m a wordpress.org kinda’ guy. sorry for blanking out…of course, i’m the only one who ever asked a dumb question on a forum. no one EVER does that…right?
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Being a wordpress.org kinda guy is nothing to apologize for. I also have a wordpress.org install on another domain. What’s important is that people posting here are patient and will read carefully through all of the excellent documentation Staff have prepared and we Volunteers point to, so they can make an informed decision calmly and with a clear mind. Best wishes to you. :)
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