@Monica – I have never migrated from Joomla, best asking on the support forums. Not integrated with Quickbooks either, not sure how or why you would. You get to market quick with a faster development schedule, sooner you get to market sooner your potential customers see what you have to offer. Also an easy CMS allows the sales team to develop content and landing pages, rather than having to farm that work out and slowing down the cycle. Lastly, WP blogs are renowned for being well-supported for SEO.

@Graham – As I say above, while it is great for most, ANY generic solution is going to find areas on the fringes where it falls down.

@Don – Cool, I will check it out

@Sandy – Yup, I still hear of IT directors insisting on 6 and 7 figure license agreements rather than look at open source though, there is for some people a credibility gap and I think it comes down to fear of career limiting decisions

@Snoskred – I agree the WP team has made life unnecessarily difficult for small businesses to keep up. The mandatory upgrades should never contain new or upgraded features and older versions should be supported.

@raj – I love cobol

@Ganesh – It’s not just the small companies either. You would be amazed at the huge companies who have rebellious departments creating silos stitched together with the computing equiv of gum, glue and string.

@dave – Thanks for the clarification, great work

@Simon – Opinions differ, they always will. Your 2c is welcome The proof though in my mind is in the end experience, and in that most users are happy. Does it meet customers needs? Yes. Are they delighted with the result? Yes. Do you think a small engineering firm, architect, accountant or a realtor care about OOP, PHP5 or which database their site runs on? Geeks can argue about the tech until they are blue in their face, customers just want to achieve their objectives. I do have concerns about the way updates are released for critical security issues, but not so concerned that I would look to other platforms. I stick with WP because it has the most support, it just works and I know it well

@Monica – I have never migrated from Joomla, best asking on the support forums. Not integrated with Quickbooks either, not sure how or why you would. You get to market quick with a faster development schedule, sooner you get to market sooner your potential customers see what you have to offer. Also an easy CMS allows the sales team to develop content and landing pages, rather than having to farm that work out and slowing down the cycle. Lastly, WP blogs are renowned for being well-supported for SEO.

@Graham – As I say above, while it is great for most, ANY generic solution is going to find areas on the fringes where it falls down.

@Don – Cool, I will check it out

@Sandy – Yup, I still hear of IT directors insisting on 6 and 7 figure license agreements rather than look at open source though, there is for some people a credibility gap and I think it comes down to fear of career limiting decisions

@Snoskred – I agree the WP team has made life unnecessarily difficult for small businesses to keep up. The mandatory upgrades should never contain new or upgraded features and older versions should be supported.

@raj – I love cobol

@Ganesh – It’s not just the small companies either. You would be amazed at the huge companies who have rebellious departments creating silos stitched together with the computing equiv of gum, glue and string.

@dave – Thanks for the clarification, great work

@Simon – Opinions differ, they always will. Your 2c is welcome The proof though in my mind is in the end experience, and in that most users are happy. Does it meet customers needs? Yes. Are they delighted with the result? Yes. Do you think a small engineering firm, architect, accountant or a realtor care about OOP, PHP5 or which database their site runs on? Geeks can argue about the tech until they are blue in their face, customers just want to achieve their objectives. I do have concerns about the way updates are released for critical security issues, but not so concerned that I would look to other platforms. I stick with WP because it has the most support, it just works and I know it well

From the SEO standpoint WP does better than some CMS but it still requires quite an experienced developer with some SEO exposure to rig it up correctly and max it for social media penetration with plugins. This problem is often compounded by the huge number of very poor quality free themes which can be a false economy.

Finally there are a number of serious security and resource hogging issues surounding WP useage particularly the older versions or the very new releases. Many a user has been thrown off their host because of the poor formation of the WP mysql queries
leading to web hosts being tied up. Sadly many corporates – and even *designers* who hold themselves out as WP experts do not know how to use svn from trunk to keep the software patched regularly.

And please do not get me started on php5 OOP or the lack thereof in WP plus its sole support for mysql. Not to mention the monstrous size of the download.

Using free open source software is partly a vote for the culture.
And by that benchmark WP just doesnt stand up.

Just my 2 cents.

From the SEO standpoint WP does better than some CMS but it still requires quite an experienced developer with some SEO exposure to rig it up correctly and max it for social media penetration with plugins. This problem is often compounded by the huge number of very poor quality free themes which can be a false economy.

Finally there are a number of serious security and resource hogging issues surounding WP useage particularly the older versions or the very new releases. Many a user has been thrown off their host because of the poor formation of the WP mysql queries
leading to web hosts being tied up. Sadly many corporates – and even *designers* who hold themselves out as WP experts do not know how to use svn from trunk to keep the software patched regularly.

And please do not get me started on php5 OOP or the lack thereof in WP plus its sole support for mysql. Not to mention the monstrous size of the download.

Using free open source software is partly a vote for the culture.
And by that benchmark WP just doesnt stand up.

Just my 2 cents.

As you rightly say it’s 100% WP but with some fairly heavy mods for functionality and security. Happy to give you and readers some more insight once it launches.

As you rightly say it’s 100% WP but with some fairly heavy mods for functionality and security. Happy to give you and readers some more insight once it launches.

What business wants is something simple that works and something they don’t have to constantly upgrade.

I think something like Injader probably has a better shot at winning business customers long term. It is also open source, it is also free, the difference is it seems to have some kind of clue about what the users want from blogging software rather than being on some egotistical “we’ll make our software do a bunch of stuff that you used to use plugins for only our software won’t work as well when we do that” trip. If you use wordpress, you might want to install Injader and have a look at it.

I don’t recommend that people upgrade to 2.6 – I do recommend people read this post – Where did WordPress go wrong? – and start asking themselves the same questions that appear in there, and maybe some other ones that occur to them. 759 bugs vanishing in 24 hours? No longer supporting previous versions, even 2.5?

It is a shame to see something that a lot of people took up lose the plot in such a major way. And when the plot gets lost, people jump ship.

Cheers,
Snoskred

What business wants is something simple that works and something they don’t have to constantly upgrade.

I think something like Injader probably has a better shot at winning business customers long term. It is also open source, it is also free, the difference is it seems to have some kind of clue about what the users want from blogging software rather than being on some egotistical “we’ll make our software do a bunch of stuff that you used to use plugins for only our software won’t work as well when we do that” trip. If you use wordpress, you might want to install Injader and have a look at it.

I don’t recommend that people upgrade to 2.6 – I do recommend people read this post – Where did WordPress go wrong? – and start asking themselves the same questions that appear in there, and maybe some other ones that occur to them. 759 bugs vanishing in 24 hours? No longer supporting previous versions, even 2.5?

It is a shame to see something that a lot of people took up lose the plot in such a major way. And when the plot gets lost, people jump ship.

Cheers,
Snoskred

You’ve summarized the benefits of the tool very well, and as the points you’ve made align very well with the overall theme of my site, your post has inspired my latest piece.

Just because a tool is relatively cheap (like the Monarch software that is the focus of my site), or even free (like WP), doesn’t mean that it isn’t extremely valuable.

You’ve summarized the benefits of the tool very well, and as the points you’ve made align very well with the overall theme of my site, your post has inspired my latest piece.

Just because a tool is relatively cheap (like the Monarch software that is the focus of my site), or even free (like WP), doesn’t mean that it isn’t extremely valuable.

I just started an article series about this, the first one is called: Why Use WordPress to Power Your Small Business Website?

As for scalability in larger companies or high traffic situations, its a valid concern but it is also something that you will have to deal with and plan for in any CMS.

I just started an article series about this, the first one is called: Why Use WordPress to Power Your Small Business Website?

As for scalability in larger companies or high traffic situations, its a valid concern but it is also something that you will have to deal with and plan for in any CMS.

I think what people forget is that WordPress is a CMS. It’s not called that necessarily, and it is specialized to fit the blogging format (which may be why people have a hard time converting it effectively…)

And, like any off-the-shelf CMS, scalability will likely be a problem. Originally, all CMS were customized to meet specific company requirements (especially in terms of scalability) so it is not surprising that WordPress spins its wheels a bit when forced outside of its original operating parameters. Widgetizing functions will offer more people more options, but the trade-off is that you will access the database 17 times per page.

However, I don’t think it would be too difficult for the PHP programmer to hard-code some of those widgets and reduce some of the database traffic. I couldn’t say for sure, mind you, but I would imagine you could streamline it somewhat…

This might be the next new direction for WordPress too…

~Graham

I think what people forget is that WordPress is a CMS. It’s not called that necessarily, and it is specialized to fit the blogging format (which may be why people have a hard time converting it effectively…)

And, like any off-the-shelf CMS, scalability will likely be a problem. Originally, all CMS were customized to meet specific company requirements (especially in terms of scalability) so it is not surprising that WordPress spins its wheels a bit when forced outside of its original operating parameters. Widgetizing functions will offer more people more options, but the trade-off is that you will access the database 17 times per page.

However, I don’t think it would be too difficult for the PHP programmer to hard-code some of those widgets and reduce some of the database traffic. I couldn’t say for sure, mind you, but I would imagine you could streamline it somewhat…

This might be the next new direction for WordPress too…

~Graham