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WordPress, a perfect blog platform? Yes, but it’s a lot more than that!
WordPress is software platform based on PHP and MySQL database. It allows to publish content on your website easily and quickly. You will be surprised with powerful, typical for standard CMS platforms, WordPress features.
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For this ecology news portal we designed attractive layout and then implemented WordPress with multi language support.
Greenfudge / view project
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Corporate website of online communities network. WordPress was perfect tool for them in order to manage content on their site in fast and intuitive manner.
ChannelFuse / visit online
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I have worked with Merix for quite some time now, collaborating on a number of Wordpress-based projects. Not only did they develop dynamic websites using Wordpress, but also provided UX expertise several times for my own WP projects.
George Jensen / User Experience Architect
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Merix has been an invaluable development partner that continually exceeds expectations with their high quality code, attention to detail, and overall professionalism
Clay Fisher / Briteclick
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There are many interesting WP developments we have done that were performed for our partners under NDA agreement and we can’t present them here :(
Secret Agent / NDA
Who do we work for?
At the beginning WordPress was meant to support blogs, however its features have grown what results in fully mature product with vast number of possible applications and unprecedented ease of use.
Basically, WordPress is a software platform based on PHP and MySQL database, which allows to publish content on your website easily and quickly.
So many uses of WordPress as CMS
It’s much more than just a blogging platform. We can customize WordPress by installing or writing our own plugins so that it’s transformed into full-featured CMS platform.
WordPress usage examples:
- blogs
- news websites, e-magazines
- corporate websites
- photo galleries
- e-commerce sites
- job board
- business directory
- wiki
- review site
- social networking platform
WordPress advantages
Using WordPress brings lots of benefits. Some of most important pros of using WP are:
- Easy installation
WordPress installation takes only few minutes (not counting time necessary to send files to the FTP server) - it requires to enter data necessary to connect with database, e-mail address and administrator password. - User friendliness
Content management as well as other website areas are intuitive and don’t require any technical knowledge. - Ready-made extensions
Lots of readymade themes and extensions are available, that are both easy to install and use. They greatly extend websites functionality, what in many cases eliminates necessity to perform additional development works. - Easy development of new extensions
Thanks to number of available functions and well prepared documentation even novice developer can create own theme or easy plugin for a website powered by WordPress. - Optimized for search engines
WordPress allows to easily create friendly links, moreover it gives full control over the source code what perfectly facilitates search engine optimization. - Versatile data structure
The core element is an object - blog post. It can be freely enriched by additional fields of many kinds which gives almost unlimited possibilities. This is the basic advantage of WordPress flexibility. - Low implementation cost
Thanks to the GPL license WordPress is free of any charges. Besides it’s supported by large community of developers, who endlessly create new extensions for various purposes. This all results in fact that setting up new website on WP is much cheaper than in case commercial tools.
Why it’s worth to use WordPress?
- It’s not only one of the best blogging platform but also great CMS.
- Wide range of possible applications from small blog to online store.
- Intuitive and easy to use admin panel, even for less experienced users.
- Lots of available plugins that extend its base functionality.
- Low implementation costs.
Other Services
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Drupal CMS
Number 1 of all open source Content Management Systems out there. Why? It’s extremely powerful, flexible and extensible (huge library of free plug-ins). Drupal has largest, active web developers community. Click here to learn more.
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Magento
Modern and fastest growing open source e-commerce platform. Magento allows you to create functional and fully personalized online store. Having its source code released on open-source license, it has huge community and plenty of extensions (mostly free of charge), which enrich functionality of this product.