Happy Birthday WordPress!

WordPress is five years old today! ..and although i haven’t even been using it five months I feel it only right to say not only congratulations, but also Thank You.

I was always a ‘Blogger‘ user and before that i just made my own random pages and stuck them out into the ‘tubes’ not knowing if anyone actually read anything until i upset them.

I do believe though that I am now hooked and unless something pretty drastic and/or amazing happens.. I will be here for a good time to come.

So why do i like WordPress so much?

I guess mainly it’s because there are so many people I have met through social media that use and understand the importance of such a powerful tool and enabler. Seeing others using this blog software as effectively as they were (and still are) drew me into having at first a peek.. and then jumping headlong into this bandwagon. A bandwagon (assuming this once was a reference to a vehicle of some kind) that at the click of a button can be a small pizza delivery boy on a bike..  or the next moment, a thundering juggernaught.

It is this flexibility and customisation that has hid from me the fact that, without knowing it, I seem to have always been drawn to sites using WordPress. Far more than sites incorporating other blogging platforms.

I love the flexibility to have a site in almost any shape or form, compatible with no end of open source plugins, costing as little as nothing, up to a nominal fee for something a little more in depth. All of this is easily accessible to people not at all versed in code and programing.

I threw myself in at the deep end with this ‘Revolution‘ theme and decided to splash out £40 even though I had never even tried to play with the free themes. Before i knew it, WordPress was installed and with the help of some online friends showing me the ropes and pushing a few buttons.. I had a site up and running that I had never dreamed of having just a week before.

We tend to bang on and on about how important content is but let’s not forget that it’s delivery is equally important. Thanks a lot WordPress and Happy Birthday!

Many thanks to Derek Mantle, Annie Boccio, Steve Purkiss and Phil Sorrell for their superior WordPress and CSS knowledge.

A moment ago I threw out a question onto Twitter asking who was using WordPress and got these links back..

Click on every one.. Go on.. I dare ya..

http://www.ihadfaith.com

http://www.sizemore.co.uk/

http://social8.co.uk

http://www.loudmouthman.com/

http://www.ethosmarketing.co.uk

http://suzemuse.wordpress.com

http://jestercreative.com/wordpress/

http://geekgrls.wordpress.com/

http://deekdeekster.com

http://mycountryside.org.uk

http://thegirlinthez.wordpress.com/

http://heavensgame.wordpress.com/

http://www.writeonfilm.com/

http://myblog.greguti.com/

http://speechification.com/

http://watchification.com/

http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/

http://www.tc100.org/

http://www.rickwolff.com

http://amedievalhand.wordpress.com

http://www.kmeron.com/

http://www.kittenfluff.wordpress.com/

http://www.apollodane.com

http://www.bigtalkproductions.com/blog/

http://www.stormhoek.com

http://www.thealbumchartshow.com

http://www.claritypartnership.co.uk

http://www.blog.edgarwrighthere.com

http://www.industrymeme.com

http://www.lunarfilms.co.uk

http://www.thinmanfilms.co.uk

http://www.normanscoachsoho.com

http://www.farouq.me.uk/blog

www.thewayoftheweb.net

www.LetMeRephraseThat.com

www.blugture.net/blog

www.OurManInside.com

I see a theme forming.. 

OK guys.. I have linked you.. now link me back!