WordPress CMS is at the heart of websites built by Sundog Media. Although we have extensive experience with Joomla and other Content Management Systems we have chosen WordPress as our CMS of choice. Read our in-depth article, Why We Love WordPress!
What’s a content management system (CMS)?
It’s software that allows you to create and manage your websites’ content with relative ease. From simple text and photos, to music, video and documents, you’ll be in control and able to manage all of that with a CMS installed in your website. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage.
Here are just a few of the features that the WordPress CMS provides:
• WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor
The editor allows you to take control of your website’s pages. It allows anyone (that has been given permission) to edit and add content to all of your pages as well as insert links, images, audio, video, and most common document formats. If you can use a program like Microsoft Word you can use this editor. Don’t worry, we’ll be training you as well!
• Exceptional SEO Results
WordPress, straight out of the box, comes ready to embrace search engines. Its features and functions guide search engines through your posts, pages, and categories. This helps the search engine crawl your site and gather the information it needs to include your site within its results.
• Comments
Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. You can enable or disable comments on a per-post basis.
• RSS Feeds
Not only can your News be instantly displayed on other websites, you can also display news from other websites on yours! All with the click of a couple of buttons, visitors can display your News headlines on their site, when their site visitors click, they are taken directly to your site. It’s a great way for you to not only increase your sites’ traffic, but to get your News read!
• Multiple Authors
WordPress’ highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users.
• Search & Site Map Functionality
If you need to provide visitors with search capabilities or an easy to read site map of your content, the CMS can be set up to include these functions built directly into your desig
• Full Standards Compliance
WordPress has gone to great lengths to make sure every bit of WordPress generated code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C.
• Great Selection of Plugins
• Open Source – Constantly Improving
That means you get a product that took a community thousands of manhours to build and continue to improve.
• Notable Users
• Spam Protection
Out of the box WordPress comes with very robust tools such as an integrated blacklist and open proxy checker to manage and eliminate comment spam on your blog
• Full User Registration
WordPress has a built-in user registration system that (if you choose) can allow people to register and maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your blog. You can optionally close comments for non-registered users. There are also plugins that hide posts from lower level users.
• Password Protected Posts
You can give passwords to individual posts to hide them from the public. You can also have private posts which are viewable only by their author.
If you would like more information on this content management system, please don’t hesitate to ask.
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