There are many advantages to building a site on top of WordPress:
- automatic RSS feeds
- chronological blog posts
- event calendaring
- content updated by authors rather than by a webmaster
A site can be built and handed over to a nonprofit organization to take ownership of. WordPress updates and upgrades are a breeze. As the future unfolds and plugins develop, your site moves with it. There are a ton of great plugins to expand what WordPress can do. Here are some I use:
- ShareThis, which allows visitors to spread your site far and wide.
- Secure Form Mailer, which is great for petitioning legislators.
- Akismet for catching spam comments.
- Feedburner Feedsmith for managing your RSS feeds. It also provides statistics based on your subscribers.
- Google XML Sitemaps to help Google know what content is on your site.
- WordPress Database Backup, which allows you to back up your site’s content.
I once struggled trying to decipher how WordPress sites are put together. The folks at WPDesigner.com put together a great series of articles that instruct users how to create WordPress themes from scratch.
Here are some WordPress themes I have created:
