Version 2.8 of WordPress continues the trend towards user friendliness. A year ago many of the emails and questions I received through this website were related to using WordPress after it was installed. Typically I would install WordPress on a client’s hosting account and then have many emails and phone calls over the next several months as they struggled to learn how to use it. With the latest versions, especially 2.8, this has changed.
The most common request I get continues to be to do an initial install of WordPress, often including setting up hosting service for the same client. The second most common request is to reinstall WordPress for someone who used something like Fantastico and then discovered they really should have done a custom installation themselves. Requests for help with upgrades and day to day use of WordPress have really declined. This is not necessarily a great thing for those of us in the business of WordPress support, but it is a tribute to improvements the WordPress developers have been making in each new version release.
So if you have been considering using WordPress for a Blog or a Website, doing so is becoming easier and easier. It is also becoming more efficient for anyone you may hire to provide ongoing WordPress administration and support. This translates into lower costs, or a lighter workload to maintain your site.
There are still several things you must take care of if you have a website or blog of your own. The first is to make sure to back up often and to make sure those backups are good. Second keep WordPress and any plugins you may use up-to-date. Provide interesting and frequently updated content for your site. Choose your WordPress theme carefully if you go with a free theme. Many are not supported or updated as time goes by. The best thing is to install a SEO friendly premium theme. You may have to pay for the theme, or you may get it by hiring someone like me to set your site up. In either case, because the theme developer has an income from their theme development work, the theme will stick around and be well supported and updated.
If you need help getting started, feel free to contact me. My services for installation of WordPress are quite reasonable and I can usually get to your project with 2 or 3 days. A few of the websites I have done can be seen at this link. I look forward to hearing from you.
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Hey will its about time to post your web site services. I just recently completed my first wordpress blog for my client, and working on the another, thus the absence from blogging. I always been happy with 2 hosting companies I been with. However, the last web site I completed, my client was with Yahoo, and that was headache. Anna
Hi Anna! Don’t I know you from somewhere?
I have only been working on a couple of sites over the past few months, but those have kept me busy. They are both sites where I built them, now maintain and do all admin work for them. I need to do a couple of new sites soon as I do miss that creative part of it.