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Help to get started with WordPress

April 14, 2011 in News Roundup, Uncategorized

WrenchSteve Boneham, who works as a Consultant Trainer at the staff development organisation Netskills, is currently developing a workshop which helps people with little technical knowledge to start hosting their own WordPress sites.

The pre-workshop buzz looks encouraging.

“I’ve had a lot of positive feedback in the developing stage”, Steve said.

“Certainly, the time is right for WordPress. A lot of people are interested and there’s a lot you can do with it.”

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WordPress moving beyond its blogging roots

April 14, 2011 in Features

wordpress_logoWordPress has quietly gained the acceptance of the critical masses and grown into the biggest blogging platform on the web.

We asked web trainer Steve Boneham what’s so great about it.

“It’s free, open source, powerful, customisable, expandable. It’s got millions of users and a very active community of developers working with it”, he said.

To host or not to host?

WordPress offers two ways of using it – a hosted version running from the WordPress site often referred to as the ‘dot com version’ or a self-hosted version which means users are running it themselves.

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Profile: Matt Mullenweg

March 11, 2010 in Micro-Bites

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Matthew Charles Mullenweg is the founder of the blogging software WordPress.

Mullenweg was born in Houston, Texas in 1984. Before WordPress he was working for CNET Networks.

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