{"id":36,"date":"2009-10-08T12:51:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T12:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=36"},"modified":"2009-10-09T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T15:08:00","slug":"equipment-at-base-camp-3-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/2009\/equipment-at-base-camp-3-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Equipment at Base Camp, 3. WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cWhat\u00a0I\u2019ve got, how I choose it, how I got it,\u00a0why I think I need it and what I know about how to use it\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WOW,<em>\u00a0<\/em>this WordPress is something that ticks my boxes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why I think I need it<\/strong>&#8211; Briefly touched on in the previous post, in more detail.\u00a0Blogging gives the interactivity that I think I need. As I&#8217;m planning to record a lot of the stuff that I do, blogging is great way to get the ideas down and build up content. I&#8217;ve found from using Blogger, as long as I&#8217;ve got something useful to say I can get some traffic (my <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/roomuptop.blogspot.com\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/roomuptop.blogspot.com\/\">DIY Loft conversion Blog<\/a>, with very little effort is getting about 1000 hits a month). My idea is to get the bones of stuff down as I&#8217;m doing it and flesh out the information in a more structured fashion later on the actual website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How I choose it &#8211;<\/strong>After reading up a bit about the &#8220;Blogosphere&#8221; it became clear that blogging platforms like Blogger are quite limited and restrictive, you are on\u00a0anothers\u00a0 territory and you have to obey their laws.\u00a0 WordPress can be tinkered with and moulded to what you need, if you host it yourself you are king of the content and can make your own rule. Or as I am at the moment, exist in an anarchic world, the rules and structure will come later. Best of all it&#8217;s free!\u00a0 The downsides are a complete unknown to me. <em>(Please feel free to comment if you know of any)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How I got it &#8211;<\/strong>Another upside to the eUKhost package is a part of the cPanel called Fantastico that installs applications for you. A few clicks, another logoin etc. and there it is, WordPress and its database set up and ready to go. I&#8217;ve read,\u00a0it can also be downloaded directly from\u00a0\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.Wordpress.org');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.Wordpress.org\">WordPress.org<\/a>\u00a0and installed easily\u00a0on any hosting space that can handle\u00a0a database.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I know about how to use WordPress &#8211; <\/strong>Hey I can post, you&#8217;re reading this so there&#8217;s the proof. It does look incredibly powerful though and, I dare say, much of it\u00a0I haven&#8217;t even considered yet. I do know it possible to apply templates contributed by users from around the world,\u00a0the\u00a0 whole look of it and the navigation can be altered to fit in or even match a website. I&#8217;ve got a long way to go but for now the &#8220;as is&#8221; will do so I can get the content down.<\/p>\n<p>After skimming some of the tutorials and advice on the WordPress site, I&#8217;m confident the level of\u00a0 guidance I need is available and I should progress well with it. \u00a0One minor niggle I have found is, the spell checker is a bit thick and with my level of dyslexia it can do my head in, I can live with that though.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat\u00a0I\u2019ve got, how I choose it, how I got it,\u00a0why I think I need it and what I know about how to use it\u201d WOW,\u00a0this WordPress is something that ticks my boxes Why I think I need it&#8211; Briefly touched on in the previous post, in more detail.\u00a0Blogging gives the interactivity that I think I [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,18,20,12,14,19],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ido-digitalmarketing-stuff","tag-beginner","tag-choice","tag-hosting","tag-personal-development","tag-website","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}