WordPress (Blogs)

A major problem to many businesses is the balance between keeping a website up-to-date versus the cost of expensive website developers. The way to solve this is through Content Management Systems (CMS), since they enable many content owners to update the website with approval workflows built in. The cost then becomes an initial outlay to get the correct look and feel with the website developers not being required for content updates.

WordPress is FREE PHP based CMS publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

WordPress MU is a multi-user allowing what it says in that you can multiple users each having blogs.

Features include:

• W3C standards compliance
• Allow non-blog content
• Theme system to develop your own or take one of the hundreds already available
• Cross-blog communication tools
• Visitor comments
• Spam protection
• User registration
• Private and public posts
• Ease of use tools (no knowledge of coding needed)
• Multiple authors
• Automatic ping so maximum exposure

Praeparo are experts in hosting and customising websites using WordPress and WordPress MU.

We can adapt our Business Starter package to implement a WordPress website. For £425 you get a domain name, wordpress installed with a choice of 100 themes, popular plugins (SEO, analytics, bookmarks), Hosting for 1 year including email.

Need to know more about WordPress? Click here for WordPress overview video.