I've released the first little taste of the new ebook project I'm working on. The new book, HowTo: WordPress 3, is scheduled for final release 15 July. In the meantime, check out this article over at OpenSourceCMS.pro -- this is from Chapter 1 of the HowTo: WordPress 3. - ric.
WordPress comes in two flavors, a hosting blogging service and a downloadable content management system (CMS) that you host yourself. The two versions have the same name – a source of frequent confusion. If you are evaluating WordPress, one of the first questions you need to ask yourself is which flavor of WordPress is right for you. Like most things, there are pros and cons to both approaches and though the cost of moving from one system to the other is quite low, it’s better to get this right the first time around and save yourself some trouble.
WordPress, the hosted blogging service, is a commercial venture run by Automattic, the company behind the whole WordPress family of products. The blogging service can be found at http://wordpress.COM. WordPress, the open source CMS system that is the subject of this book, is a non-commercial venture run by a large community of volunteers. The CMS can be found at http://wordpress.ORG.
We present here, for your consideration, a list of the advantages and disadvantages of each system – there is not one “right answer” – how you prioritize the issues is up to you.
Packt is pleased to announce WordPress 3 Cookbook , a new book that covers over 100 recipes to help users to develop their WordPress site.
Bali, Indonesia – water&stone is now in the process of gathering data for the fourth annual Open Source CMS Market Share Report. This year’s report will be looking at survey data gathered from CMS users around the world. The survey is now available online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2011-OSCMS-Survey
In the lead up to the 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Report, water&stone surveyed a group of users of various open source content management systems. In the survey, we asked users to evaluate the most popular open source content management systems and to share the criteria they used in the selection process. During November and December of 2010, over 5,000 people participated in the survey. Of that group, 3,365 answered the question: “When selecting a CMS, how important are the following features?” In this article, we share the insights gained from that question.
Just wrote up an article for OpenSourceCMS.pro. This one draws on the research data we gathered for the OSCMS Market Share Report:
In the lead up to the 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Report, water&stone surveyed a group of users of open source content management systems. The survey asked users to evaluate the most popular open source content management systems and to share the criteria they use to select a system. During November and December of 2010, over 5,000 people participated in the survey. Of that group, 2,647 answered the question: "How important were the following factors in the selection of your [present] CMS?" In this article, we share the insights gained from that question.
