Comments on: Understanding WordPress Community Fanaticism

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By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:56:30 +0000

I can honestly say that wordpress changed my life. I´ve worked with other CMS and Drupal, and wordpress is so far the best, for one single reason – it´s create for a user without technological knowledge. Also it´s modular characteristics, with thousands of new modules inside the wordpress plugins database, create a perfect match for any type of website. WordPress gave me freedom from the “geek” part of bloging such as keep tracking of code, customizing and version tracking. Now i just focus on content, and I´m sure that the platform will be up to the job. Cheers from Brazil!

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:35:52 +0000

@ Mike T:

I agree that it is important that people get the freedom to publish and use whatever laws of their country that allows free speech, and go against those that don’t. I’m not saying that one program is better than another – it’s the grassroots community that supports WordPress that amazes me.

As I said, the platform for self-publishing isn’t the issue. The issue I found is the powerful community and the participants within it. That is what amazes me and keeps me hanging around. :D

What is it about WordPress that attracts the energy and enthusiasm I don’t see from those using other programs?

By: Mike T

Mike T — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:51:42 +0000

WordPress has done a lot, I’ll give them that, but let’s be realistic here. Most of what is being done here can be done with any platform. From a technical point of view, WordPress is not even at the top of the game. Movable Type 4 is actually heads and shoulders above WordPress from an engineering point of view. I know from personal experience, since I’ve written plugins for both, and Movable Type feels much more like a real enterprise-worthy system than WordPress.

What really matters, though, is that people get a chance to publish, and make use of their other first amendment right: the freedom of the press. The freedom of the press isn’t the freedom to be a reporter, but the freedom to take your ideas, put them into a distributable medium and make them available to others. WordPress, Movable Type, etc. It’s all good if people are actually celebrating the ability to thumb their nose at the mavens of media control and publish freely.

By: Jerod Morris

Jerod Morris — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:15:58 +0000

WordPress has absolutely changed my life. Three months ago I took a job as a copywriter for a social media marketing company in Dallas, TX. I didn’t know html from xml from php. I wrote web copy and press releases and was given periodic spoonfuls of basic SEO knowledge.

A few weeks into my job, my boss started talking WordPress and we began to get requests for blogging services. While I didn’t know much about blogging, I did have a healthy curiosity. My boss told me about WordPress and with his blessing I started a “side project” to learn how WordPress works and how it can be used as part of a comprehensive online marketing strategy.

My passion is sports, and I am from the Midwest, so I decided to start a little practice blog around something I liked to write about. Thus, MidwestSportsFans.com was born, powered by WordPress, and with an administrator who had never used WordPress or php before.

Two months later, we are celebrating our second straight day of 1,000 unique visitors and our company is pitching blog strategy and implementation left and right — and feeling totally confident in doing so. Why? Because WordPress is such an amazing open source platform, with such a rich volume of plugins and tutorials to draw on.

With minimal tech savvy but a lot of determination and curiosity literally anything is possible with WordPress. Midwest Sports Fans is proof of that, as I am quite proud of my little “work project” creation. Needless to say, it’s quickly becoming more than just a side project — it is now a major selling tool and credibility builder with potential clients; and, most importantly, something I truly passionate about waking up and contributing to every day.

Without WordPress, Midwest Sports Fans wouldn’t even be just a dream in my head. The dream itself never would have even been possible.