I’ve been using Wordpress as a blogging platform for a few years now. It’s an awesome blogging tool. Up until last week I never thought of Wordpress as anything more than just a blogging platform, but last week I started looking into how to create my own Wordpress template and discovered that Wordpress is so much more than just a blogging platform.

Wordpress provides a framework that can be used to create dynamic web sites that look like a “normal” (i.e., non-blog) web site.  One of the benefits of using Wordpress is that it already provides great administrative tools and the ability to quickly add new pages and posts, as well as modifying existing content. Then there’s the list of plugins available and great SEO capabilities.

My first foray into using Wordpress for a real website has been converting my Flintvalley.com web site over to Wordpress.  It only took me a couple of days, and that included the time I spent reading and learning about the Wordpress framework.  While the site is operational (which is obvious since your reading this on the site :)), I still have some work to do on it. There’s just so many features available from Wordpress that it will take me a while to really grasp all of the possibilities and put them to work.  I’ve also started to migrate a few other sites I have over to Wordpress.