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WordPress Pros What Cons??? :)

Slides prepared for panel discussion comparing WordPress and Joomla

#clt

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WordPress is EASY to learn to Use

• Over 202 million WordPress users worldwide, so many people don't even need to learn.

• They are experts already!

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Its simple, either edit or create a Page or a Post(blog/news

article)• Not all sites need pages• Not all sites need blog or news articles

either.• Both situations ARE OK

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WordPress is the iPhone of Web Development There's an

App for that & ITS FREE!

• There are more than 9,200 'Apps' known as Plugins available to download and install on WordPress sites

• Most of them are free (built in open source communities). Plugins that cost money are usually VERY cheap.

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Free Themes

• What is a Theme?

• There are over a 1100 free themes to download from WordPress with no strings attached.

• There are TENs of thousands of free themes that might include a sponsor link in the footer

• Learning to Create a Theme is Easy Too (not free but very cheap)• I can teach anyone to build a WP theme (no experience necessary at

all) in about 10 minutes

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WLW WindowsLiveWriter FREE program fm Microsoft

• Manage your Website Pages and Posts from a desktop application!

• Makes adding/editing pictures, copy, videos, download files VERY EASY

• If your users can use Outlook or send an email, they can manage your website with WLW

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Get Great SEO results out of the box

• Doing almost nothing extra, WordPress can get a person or a business great SERP results

• More work can yield better results too

• All in One SEO, XML Sitemaps, Scribe SEO

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Run your own Decentralized Social Network

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Tools Mentioned• All in One SEO - http://bit.ly/All-in-One-SEO • XML Sitemaps• Scribe SEO - http://bit.ly/SEOWPPlugin • Pagemash (organize WP pages/hide pgs fm Menus)• Neo Pro 4 (Email Organizer)• Quickbooks/Quickbooks Online• WindowsLiveWriter

– Desktop Site Management Publishing Tool (free typically installed in Windows 7 or Vista already)

• Artisteer – Design Joomla or WordPress themes in Minutes - http://bit.ly/ArtisteerDiscount

• Greater Charlotte Area WordPress Meetup Group - http://bit.ly/cltwp