Clay Pots & Wooden Spoons

I was reading some posts in the Wordpress Pinoy forums, and I saw Joni (whom I’ve followed a bit before because I liked her designs) and I remembered I was trying her link back in the school library but it won’t show since the computers there have lots of firewalls and stuff. So I clicked on her link and I saw her post about the Wordpress For Dummies book which I’ve wanted since I saw it on E.Webscapes.

She mentioned there about Lisa giving away 5 Wordpress For Dummies books, so I went and clicked onto the link and read Lisa’s post. It seems that 5 random blogs which post about how wordpress has helped you or harmed you and links to Lisa’s post will be chosen to receive a free, autographed copy of the Wordpress for Dummies book. Since I’m short on cash and I have a bit of a free time, I’ve decided to try my luck and share my wordpress story.

I used to blog before using Friendster, Multiply, Myspace, Soulcast and Livejournal. I lose interest fast and end up discontinuing them after a short time. I bought this domain because I was interested to make a community site that showcased the Philippines, its food, people and its beautiful places. But I got lazy again since it was a lot of work so the domain lay useless for around 4-5 months before I decided to try and start my own hosted blog. I looked for content management systems at first, but since Drupal, Joomla and the rest made my head hurt, I decided to try Wordpress and create a blog.

I downloaded wordpress and decided to take a risk. I knew nothing about coding, php , my-SQL and other techie stuff (just a few since I tried phpbb before) and I just fell in love with WP. Installing was a breeze, I just followed the instructions properly. It made me utilize Google, and I learned lots of stuffs while I searched for tutorials, tips and other information about WP. In around 3 months of having WP, I’ve learned a bit about php and databases, things which I would probably not have thought of understanding since I’m a business management student.

I’ve learned how to design a basic wp theme using Small Potato’s guides, and I’ve learned a thing or two on how to edit existing themes to suit my blog. WP plugins are heaven sent since a lot of them are also widgetized already so its pretty much install, activate, drag and its ready. The whole WP community as well is great, plugins and themes are abundant, and many people are willing to teach and answer questions that people have. It is indeed one of the best blogging platforms around and its user-friendly as well.

I’ve just been on Wordpress for 3 months, but I see myself using it for a long long time.