The WordPress state of the art
January 3rd, 2010 at 7:48 pm ETNot having used WordPress in almost two years, I’m staggered by the degree to which blog publishing on this platform (along with Twitter integration and a host of plugin features) has become nearly failure-proof. It was fairly easy before, but the more sophisticated features required (or at least were assisted by) a fair amount of technical background knowledge. But both on the back-end and the interface side of things, it all seems simpler now… and the full iPhone integration in the WordPress 2 iPhone app only makes it more seamless.
We’re still a bit away from Cory Doctorow’s always-on network-in-our-heads; but with each incremental improvement, we move closer to that point, which I feel certain to see in my lifetime. (How’s that for Omni-quality sci-fi boosterism?)
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Rich Mintz blogs on online fundraising and social media, American history and culture, bicycling and urbanism, food, technology, and other topics. Professionally, he's an expert in fundraising, constituency development, and social media for nonprofits, cultural organizations, cause-related marketers, and corporations. He is based in New York, where he serves as Vice President, Strategy, for 
January 8th, 2010 at 9:10 am
Agreed – in the past year especially, with the solid auto-updating and things like the P2 theme, WordPress has really become a platform that can be deployed very easily and successfully.