What is WordPress and why does it rock?
- WordPress is known as the world’s most popular blog engine, but it is also a very powerful web publishing tool or Content Management System (CMS). It allows many people to collaborate in publishing and aggregating content on a website.
- WordPress is Open Source software, which means that it is free, and more important it has an active community of developers with a major release every few months. WordPress is getting better and better, and easier to use with every release.
- WordPress is easy to extend and customize. There are thousands of plugins available that can run photo galleries, video and podcasts, polls, event managers, sophisticated dynamic forms, forums and e-commerce, amongst others.
- WordPress looks great, with thousands of free and not so free themes available so that you can have a professional looking site out of the box.
- WordPress is a joy to work with and to develop. Especially compared to rival systems suchs as Drupal, Joomla and Movable Type.
LightSpeed is run by Ashley Shaw and the company specializes in personalized consulting services for all Automattic and WordPress Related driven open source software projects:
- WordPress – WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
- WordPress-MU – WordPress MU, or multi-user, is designed to do exactly that. It is most famously used for WordPress.com where it serves tens of millions of hits on hundreds of thousands of blogs each day.
- BuddyPress – BuddyPress will transform an installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform.
- bbPress – bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.
- Akismet – Stop Comment and Trackback Spam
- Gravatar – A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites.
- Poll Daddy – Create stunning Polls and Surveys
- Intense Debate – IntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website.
- Selected WordPress.org plugins and themes
- WooThemes.com – cutting edge WordPress templates
WordPress Service Listing
- Custom coding/custom plugins — have an existing plugin modified to fit your needs, or have me write a plugin from scratch, designed specially for your needs
- WordPress upgrades — get your site upgraded to the latest and greatest, and have your plugins modified, if needed
- WordPress security audits — let me run a fine comb over your site and fix any potential security issues
- High performance configuration — I have a bunch of tricks up my sleeve to make your WordPress site responsive and stable
- Media hosting setup — have your site’s media files automatically offloaded to a high volume media hosting service to save money and ease your server’s burden
- Troubleshooting — let me figure out what that cryptic error message is, and (more importantly) let me fix it
- Comment/trackback spam management — I kill spam… dead
- Specialized blog permissions — customize the restrictions placed on your blog’s authors
- Migration to WordPress — move to your site to WordPress without breaking your old links
- Installation and integration of third party plugins
- Migrations from one server to another, with advice and support available
- Advice and guidance on installation, management and support of WordPress sites
- Bandwidth, performance and efficiency consulting for busy sites
- Reliable hosting (for selected clients only)
- WordPress MU installation, customisation, theme design, hosting and management for companies and organisations who want to host multiple blogs and provide a simple, low cost platform to their users