There are many ways WordPress can integrate into social media services and networks, and many ways you can integrate those same services and networks into your WordPress site.
You can also integrate Google Maps, Google Docs, Flickr, Tumblr, and a lot of other goodies into WordPress.
There are many WordPress Plugins that make the job easier, but this article is focused on how to do it manually both for the self-hosted version of WordPress as well as WordPress.com.
Personally, I researched for two years for a solid content management system (CMS) to host my 2,000 page static HTML site. I put many to the test with great frustration and wasted time as they were bulky, too complex, had frustrating interfaces, and high learning curve language as none of them spoke the same language, both in semantics and code. In fall of 2003, I kept stumbling across mention of this WordPress thing changing the whole concept of CMS, but it wasn’t called a CMS. It was called a blogging platform.
I tried WordPress and fell madly in love. It made sense. The interface was clean and simple and it was built on a simple dynamically generated HTML and PHP framework that I could easily incorporate into my existing award-winning design. By November of 2003, my site was relaunched on the six month old WordPress web publishing platform and I never looked back.
There are many reasons to choose WordPress, as many reasons as there are different types of enthusiasts for web design, development, and code.
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WordPress is an open source publishing platform for the web. It allows easy content management and publishing via the web browser to the web. There are four versions of WordPress.
WordPress, the self-hosted version of WordPress, is often called “dot org” or “full version.” It is the version of WordPress used by those with paid hosting services or “self-hosted.”
The is the most flexible of the WordPress versions as the user can choose from any WordPress Theme and customize it fully or create their own, and add any WordPress Plugin, script or custom code to their site. The self-hosted version of WordPress can be used by beginner or expert.
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WordPress is a trademark, both in word and image. It is required by international trademark laws to use both appropriately.
WordPress is spelled with a capital W and capital P, all one word. Usages of Wordpress, Word Press, and similar spellings and capitalization is unacceptable and in violation of trademark.
The WordPress logo is a tall, “graceful” W in a circle with a blue or gray background. Other colors and some creative distortion are acceptable, but the font and height must be maintained.
Images courtesy of Matt Mullenweg.
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