WordPress is a truly lovely platform to work with. It has grown over the years to become something that is both well documented and stable and through extensive use within the community it gets more secure all the time.

I could go on forever just talking about all the amazing things that WordPress brings to the table but I’ll cut myself short and just make a short list with the most important things.

The list

In no particular order the list follows below. The things I enjoy most about WordPress.

• A robust and competent CMS
• User management with user roles
• An organized administration interface
• Well documented APIs
• Competent plugin system
• Competent theme system
• Ability to create custom pages
• General extensibility

So these are some of the most interesting things that I have found when using WordPress. I have been working with it on and off as both administrator and developer and my experience is overall a positive one.

If you ever find yourself looking for a platform to base a simple server system on WordPress could be for you. That is if your system uses fairly infrequent larger data transfers.

The example

Just today I learned something new about this wonderful platform and that was how you create a custom page type. Just write the following code in a *.php file in your current theme.

<?php /* Template Name: Example Template */ ?>

Where “Example Template” should be replace with the name which you want your custom page type to show up as. Below this comment you include your own custom PHP code to generate the complete page. Using the well document APIs of WordPress makes the rest a piece of cake. Try it!