It has been a couple months since we began blogging on the Sapphire Solutions web site. I have talked about a variety of topics, but have not yet written about the software packages which make our blog work.
If you are familiar with Content Management Systems (CMS) or various blogging platforms, you may know about WordPress. If you have taken any time at all, looking at our web site, you know it is powered by WordPress.
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
WordPress is now, a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
WordPress can do just about anything, as far as web sites are concerned. If you can imagine some feature or function you wish your site had, WordPress either already has it, a plug-in has been developed for it, or is something that you can create a plug-in to do. There really isn’t a limit to what you can do when your site is built around WordPress. To see all the ways to extend the power of WordPress, just spend a little time here.
To begin using WordPress you need a web host who meets the minimum requirements and a little time. WordPress is completely customizable and can be used for almost anything. If companies like Ford and the New York Times use WordPress, it has to be powerful. Just look here to see all the various companies using WordPress. You’ll be amazed at all the companies you will recognize!
Because we use WordPress for our site, and because we care about Open Source projects/rights, we want to give WordPress it’s due! We love WordPress, and we think you will too!
The Sapphire Cloud fully meets the requirements to run WordPress. Sapphire Cloud is unique solution as it does not limit the options you add to WordPress to extend it’s power. You can find many other web hosts touting WordPress, though they may restrict how you extend the WordPress platform.
Utilize all the power of WordPress on your web site, but be unique. A custom WordPress Plug-in or WordPress Theme can be created as a part of our Sapphire Web solution.
When it comes to Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Search Rank Improvement and Web Presence, WordPress does it all. Sapphire Solutions can help, too, with our Sapphire Search Solution, we can get your web site and business the attention it deserves.
