Can Themes Make You Popular? How To Work Wordpress

The Internet has long been around, and has been the source of information and entertainment for young and old alike. What it also has become, moreover, is an interactive marketplace that goes by the name of Web 2.0. In the new Internet, anyone who can speak up will speak up online, whether through writing, video feeds, or photographs. The age of self expression has begun, and in the online world, this can mean traffic and profits.

Blogging is part of this new web paradigm, as it allows people to write regularly online without having to learn web design or engineering. Todays blog programs now serve millions of subscribers and writers, so that everyone, from young children to aged grandparents, from out-of-school youth to corporate executives, can write about their experiences and share information with the world.

Blogs have also become an important marketing strategy. For instance, many companies use blogs to advertise the latest trends in their market, or their latest product and service offerings. Other companies advertise themselves by publishing useful information on blog sites. For instance, a burgeoning pet food company can offer weekly articles on how to take care of certain breeds of dogs, or how to determine what kind of diet is best for your pet cat.

Still other web developers use blogs to power their websites. Instead of learning HTML or PHP scripts, such developers can simply provide a blog program with graphics and text. With a few tweaks and clicks, a company or individual can have a website, thanks to the power of blogging.

One such blog program is WordPress, which is technically a blog publishing system that is backed by a database and written in PHP script. WordPress is free software that can be downloaded online, and supports a single site or blog on installation. WordPress began as simply a way to control and manage ones text or blog entries. Newer versions of the ever evolving WordPress now point to it as a content management system: not only can users create blog entries, they can create their own web pages outside the blog system, and can also change the look of their blog.

The theme system of WordPress also allows WordPress users to change the look of their sites by changing the overall appearance, or skin. This change in themes can actually make some sites more popular, and can allow creative web artists their chance to shine.

Creating and Sponsoring Themes

Because WordPress themes make individual blogs look all the more unique, new themes should always be available to let both new and continuing users change the look of their blogs. If you are interested in making new WordPress themes, consult with WordPress help files on how you should format your files, and what themes are allowable.

Gauge the market: what is most popular during the time that you want to create a theme? Is it a movie or a song, a popular artist or an emerging one? Is it a certain color or season, a certain country in the world or planet in the solar system? Work your theme around what makes the market slaver for more.

Offer these themes for free, but ask your users to provide a link back to your WordPress blog, or to your site. If you cannot create themes, but know people that do, then you can also sponsor theme builders and creators, then ask users to link back to both you and the WordPress theme creator. The possibilities are endless if you have a blog system that offers versatility for its users: you can bank on this versatility to find niches that have not yet been filled, and needs that have not yet been met.

WordPress MU

The latest from WordPress is its WordPress MU, or the multi-blog publishing system. WordPress MU allows for many blogs to be created within a single installation of the program. This allows anyone with a WordPress blog or website to host a blogging community, which is important for companies or individuals looking to expand their market by creating informative content related to their products or services.

WordPress MU is also important for online groups, such as fan bases and alumni, to keep in touch with each other and get the latest news on common interests. WordPress also allows complete control and moderation of all blogs within a community, and from one dashboard.

A major advantage of WordPress in general is that articles are stored per category, making search engines index individual entries easily. If any of these popular entries is governed by a theme of your making, then you may see more people demanding your themes, and your name becoming more popular online.