The power of Wordpress

A few years ago, Wordpress was just a way to publish my architecture portfolio. I’m a designer, not a coder so Wordpress offers me just the right amount of control I need to get a site looking the way I want.

However, these days, Wordpress is even better. I use it as a way to share drawings, publish detailed info on my projects and heck, I even have it serving images right from inside my Dropbox folders instead of it’s own baked in media library.

With it’s new API and powerful plugins like Advanced Custom Fields, Wordpress is a powerhouse of content management. But you need to know this: If you don’t organise your content properly from the start, it’s not going to work out well for you.

Recently, I was asked to help out with a friends website. No names mentioned but let’s just say, it was probably the worst architects website I ever saw. And that’s a pretty bad place to be, as architects websites are some of the most horrible in the world. This list on Archinect has been going on for years. My friend, like many of our architecture colleagues built a site in 2010 and left it there gathering dust. Time for an update!

He wanted a site that remained fresh and hooked up all the other online places that he was publishing content to. That’s the problem with online right now, there is no real way to connect the dots, bring everything under one umbrella — I post here on Medium, I share there on Twitter, I gather on Pinterest and publish again on Instagram and Flickr.

Wordpress and the future of publishing means being able to collect this information together in one place, pulling in the data from all of your online sources into one gorgeous stream. Wordpress offers this over and above any other platform and that’s why I’m happy to stick with it and champion it’s abilities for years to come!