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WordPress: More Than A Blog Platform (part 1)

Internet is unimaginable without this WordPress, which makes writing and publishing articles on-line in a easiest way, because it is very simple and user-friendly, thing that contributed to its development in several directions.

The next series of articles I proposed to bring in the spotlight different ways of using the WordPress, bringing examples, resources, like themes and various tutorials.

Most of us have used that the WordPress has evolved in a such way, that many have forgotten that WordPress is actually a platform for blogs and there is no surprise to see popular sites of any kind, which are powered by this blogging platform. Among such sites are listed well known on-line publications like: CNN Political Ticker or NYTimes.com Blogs pand many other notable blogs, which list can be found here.

WordPress as Magazine or News Site

There are a lot of themes and techniques to create a wonderful Magazine or News Site in WordPress. Most of these theme often differ from the rest of specifications as Featured Content Gallery, Administration Panel and a lot of integrated plugins.
Many web-designers suggests WordPress because it’s simple and yet is such a pleasure to use. Yes, there are things that need to be improved but WordPress being an open source software, you can expect continuous improvements on it by the community.

Examples:

Here are my favourite sites with Magazine style, created with WordPress:

    • FollowTheWinds is a blog about Windsurfing Lifestyle, which is a modification of the theme Arthemia, and next to the default theme features it has integrated and a great flash slide panel.

    • It’s hard to believe, but Timothy Sykes is an WordPress powered blog, because it is very well structured and the concept is different from any others.

Tutorials & Resources:

Magazine Themes

Here are my favorite WordPress Themes of all time, which I think are perfectly created for Magazine Style blogs.

WordPress as a Twitter clone:

Have you ever wanted to have a Twitter profile different from the rest? Now this is possible using Wordpress. Often we observe different uses of the twitter plugins in WordPress, which led to a mini-blogging spreading among bloggers, who prefer short posts.

Examples:

Twitter-like WordPress themes:

Twitter-like WordPress Themes allows you to customize your Twitter “profile” as you want. Sometimes I feel the need to post a video or a picture, and then appears and the need for a twitter profile that you can manage as you wish, and this leads to the using of WordPress as an alternative to Twitter. But there is also a disadvantage because you lose the main essence of Twitter, that of creating a community of mini-bloggers, and disappears at the same time interaction between people who follow you.

Plugins & Tutorials

WordPress as a Trailer or Video Site:

In my opinion, beside WordPress Rockstar, I think we have to invent and VideoStar expression. Can you guess who can be called so? Certainly that’s Jason Schuller, who has introduced a new type of WordPress theme – Video Themes.

Examples

    • FlickOut is an Powered by WordPress Blog, where we can find trailers and wathc them in a very easily way.

    • TrailerFlick is a site developed by VideoStar Jason Schuller, and I would like to mention that it is very much like structure with the first example in this, even if it lacks some features.

Themes

Bellow I post all the video theme created by Jason Schuller:

And the remaining themes are creations of various authors:

I hope you enjoyed this article, and don’t forget to come back soon to read the new articles from this series called: WordPress: More Than A Blog Platform.

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About the Author

Pavel Ciorici - I'm the founder of WPZOOM, freelance blogger and web-designer from Moldova. I am blogging everything WordPress related. You can follow me on Twitter

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22 Comments
  1. WP Cult Reply to this comment December 8

    Very Nice Post :)

  2. Pavel Ciorici Reply to this comment December 8

    Thank you! :) I’m glad someone liked it :D

  3. Alex Vorn Reply to this comment December 8

    Very nice! I’m waiting for part 2 ;)

  4. Daus Reply to this comment December 9

    Thank you so much for mentioning my blog, twice! :)

  5. Pavel Ciorici Reply to this comment December 9

    @Daus: Seems that you deserved it :)

  6. SE7EN Reply to this comment December 9

    Great compilation (again)
    I’m waiting for the next post.

  7. http://jpcats.com Reply to this comment December 9

    This is my first time i visit your blog Pavel. and my firts comment in your nice blog!
    You write a great list :)
    Like seven and alex, i waiting for the part 2… realy great job :)

  8. Pallian Reply to this comment December 10

    Thanks for featuring our site – http://timothysykes.com

  9. John Deszell Reply to this comment December 11

    Great Post. Surprised you didn’t touch on Photogallery/Portfolio themes.

    I enjoy playing with Wordpress and continue to learn more everyday.

  10. Pavel Ciorici Reply to this comment December 11

    @John Deszell: Thank you! btw, take attention that this is the first part of this article.

  11. Maxion Reply to this comment December 15

    Unless you have the facility customise the code, Wordpress is probably the worst choice for a busy blog. Being open source make its routines available to every wanabe hacker on the planet.
    If I ran Wordpress on our blog network we would need to triple the server capacity just to handle the crazy number of php calls.
    I would rather let my server use its time working out the sponsor ad delivery instead of a bunch of dumb routines that do little more than decide what theme or plugins are installed.
    Just look at the Wordpress default css and you will see where it’s all leading.

  12. Fogman Reply to this comment December 15

    fabulous post and a definite bookmark! thx

  13. Redmanthatcould Reply to this comment December 15

    Awesome read, and 100% bookmark. Thanks for being so thorough…gave me some good ideas for additional traffic sites. :)

  14. Sean O’Brien Reply to this comment December 18

    Thanks for featuring my site – http://www.followthewinds.com !!

    :-)

  15. Chris Reply to this comment January 15

    @Sean O’Brien: Nice Site Sean im thinking of customising the same theme for my next project(s). I like what you have done :)

  16. jason kenny Reply to this comment January 16

    Nice writing. You are on my RSS reader now so I can read more from you down the road.
    Jason Kenny

  17. Gordon Reply to this comment January 29

    Wow, I love using wordpress for all my real estate websites.

    Wordpress can be used for anything with great success!

    Any Wordpress site will rank higher and get indexed faster than a website you build from scratch yourself!

  18. Wp Pro Themes Reply to this comment February 4

    Its really fun to see what are the wordpress capabilities instead of just normal Blog.
    Wordpress is unlimited if we can say ..:D

  19. R Zaman Reply to this comment May 12

    Awesome. A collection of Wordpress capabilities gathered here. Great.

  20. Turkish Property Market Reply to this comment May 14

    Wordpress is usually the best source for bloggers. It grows more rapidly especially for the beginners. Thanks for sharing this to us.

  21. acegoluenue Reply to this comment June 3

    Sweet blog. I never know what I am going to come across next. I think you should do more posting as you have some pretty intelligent stuff to say.

    I’ll be watching you . :)

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