WordPress Features
WordPress offers a feature set on par or better than any other software of its kind. They are committed to making the latest blogging technology available to their users (such as Trackback) and taking it a step further (such as with Pingback). You can rest assured that with WordPress you will be on the cutting edge of the technology available – here are some important details to note:
• Full standards compliance – WordPress have gone to great lengths to make sure every bit of WordPress generated code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C. This is important not only for interoperability with today’s browser but also for forward compatibility with the tools of the next generation.
• WordPress Pages – Pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily, so for example you could have a static “About” page that you manage through WordPress. For an idea of how powerful this is, the entire WordPress.org site could be run off WordPress alone. (We don’t for technical mirroring reasons.)
• WordPress Links – Links allow you to create, maintain, and update any number of blogrolls through your administration interface. This is much faster than calling an external blogroll manager.
• WordPress Themes – WordPress comes with a full theme system which makes designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated webzine a piece of cake, and you can even have multiple themes with totally different looks that you switch with a single click. Have a new design every day.
• Comments – Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and
General overview
• WordPress Content Manager voted CMS of the year 2009 with extensive SEO support
• Canvas WooTheme – Premium Website Development Framework
• Gravity Forms – We use a premium forms plugin called ‘Gravity Forms’ – allows
the ability to easily create complex forms and store queries within the wordpress backend which are easily exportable and also integrate with Mailchimp, our recommended email newsletter client
• Wptouch Mobile plugin for mobile device support
• SEO Friendly – robots.txt, sitemap.xml, breadcrumbs, pagination, etc
• Imagebasedads(728×90,468×60,125×125,300×250)
• Media blogging – Video, audio, images, text, notes, quotes, links – very easy to
do, the suggested themes handles all of the different “post types”
• Nielsons Statistics
• Google Analytics and Webmaster tools
• BuddyPress Social Networking (optional)
• bbPress forums (optional)
through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. You can enable or
disable comments on a per-post basis. • Spam protection – Out of the box WordPress comes with very robust tools such as
an integrated blacklist and open proxy checker to manage and eliminate comment spam on your blog, and there is also a rich array of plugins that can take this functionality a step further.
• Full user registration – WordPress has a built-in user registration system that (if you choose) can allow people to register and maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your blog. You can optionally close comments for non- registered users. There are also plugins that hide posts from lower level users.
• Multiple authors – WordPress’ highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users.
Mobile
Built-in Mobile device compatibility with Wptouch Pro plugin Currently, the supported mobile devices are:
• iPhone 4, iPad, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G
• iPod touch (all generations)
• Blackberry Storm 9550, 9530, 9520, 9500
• Blackberry Torch
• Palm Pre, Pixi
• Most Android devices
Social Media Optimization
• Authentication
• Facebook Connect
• Twitter Connect
• Share options:
• Facebook ‘like’ button
• Digg this button
• Twitter retweet button
• Widgets
• Flickr photos
• Twitter feed
• Facebook fanbox
Search Engine Optimization
• Fully optimised search engine friendly content setup (Alt tags for images, title tags for links, etc.)
• Google analytics ( web traffic tracking), Google web master tools, WordPress.com stats (viewable from your CMS)
• Home page “meta description” – description read by search engines (max 150 characters)
• Home page “ meta tags” – Descriptive targeted key phrases and words (Note: You will need to supply us with approximately 25 keywords about what you do and what products or services you offer that we will add to the source code of your website)
• Sitemap.xml and robots.txt
• Permalinks for all pages/posts
• Submission to search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing)
• Fully optimised search engine friendly content setup (Alt tags for images, title tags for links, etc.)
• Code validation (HTML, CSS)
• Custom Page Titles
WordPress Hosting:
It is important to remember that a WordPress site must be hosted on a WordPress compatible server platform. We would suggest that we, 30five, host the site on our hosting compnay’s FeedMyMedia server which are specifically geared towards and maintained for hosting WordPress websites.
