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With WordPress, Your Ideas Beam into Reality

December 2, 2009 by

feedI love WordPress!

In case you missed my Oct. 15, 2009 post, WordPress is one of the leading free open source content management systems (CMS).  It’s user-friendly, interactive ( i.e., Web 2.0), and lets you create professional looking websites in no time. More importantly, you can quickly improve your site when you come up with new ideas or technology changes—without having to pay for any software or development costs.

This Sunday I came up with an idea on how to improve the web feed for eVentures in Cyberland: Through the Web 2.0 Looking Glass, and What Communicators Found There. Thanks to WordPress and its large community of developers, I was able to identify the technical means to achieve what I envisioned and implement my idea in just a few hours.  

My idea was to separate the site’s web feed into three streams: one for all posts, one for cyberland posts, and one for mommyblog posts. I figured my blog’s two main categories, cyberland and mommyblog, are different enough to attract individual audiences who may be uninterested in the other category.

My solution was to install the “Category Specific RSS feed subscription” WordPress plugin along with Google Feedburner. As added pluses, Feedburner dresses up your raw XML and presents it in a neat, formatted, and readable fashion and enables you to keep count of your subscribers, change the location of your feed without losing your subscribers, and e-mail subscriptions.

Have you had any similar experiences zooming from idea to implementation with WordPress? Please share your successes in the comments section below.



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About Monica

Monica specializes in strategic communications, web and new media, and print materials with an international or multi-cultural context. She has worked on national public outreach campaigns targeting multi-cultural audiences and has conceptualized, written, and/or designed multiple websites. Monica also has written, edited, and/or designed high-profile newsletters, brochures, and reports, including some prepared in collaboration with the White House. She holds a bachelor’s in journalism and a master of international service with a focus on international communication. Monica is based in Washington, D.C.

Comments

  1. Paul says:
    December 2, 2009 at 11:51 am

    You forgot one of the important Feedburner benefits. Feedburner re-hosts your feed so it takes the stress off your server. If some maniac’s feed reader checks you feed every 2/5 of a second, then feedburner’s datacenter will take the hit instead of your hosting account.

  2. Monica says:
    December 2, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    Thanks! That’s a good point, especially for bloggers on a shared server.