Jim and Rich discuss WordPress, the free blogging software that makes it easy for anyone start their own web site with freely-available site templates and plugins. Jim is the experienced one having set up and run his WordPress-based web site theaverageguy.tv for the last few years now. I’m just a beginner who’s recently set up a blog so I can post some of my tech-related articles and stuff. At this point, I want to use my site as a sort of catch-all where I can post some work-related articles as well as personal tech notes and scribblings that I’ll revise over time.
Jim talks about the WP plugins he uses with his site and a good number of other WP related items. It’s good stuff and a lot of it, coming from an experienced web site administrator who's been at it for a while.
WordPressThere are two types of WordPress sites – the one from Wordpress.com which WordPress themselves hosts for you, and the one from WordPress.org which you must provide hosting for. Our friend and fellow podcaster Christian Johnson hosts theaverageguy.tv which is based on WordPress.org for Jim on a VPS. Jim uses WordPress.org because it’s more flexible. It allows him the site folders via FTP and he can get at the CSS if he needs to. WordPress.com allows neither of these things, but that’s ok. It’s really meant to be more first-time user friendly. A little bit of HTML knowledge can be useful, but it isn’t necessary. Windows Live Writer sees to that.
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