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Beautiful admin interface. Probably the best compared to any web software by far. Over years, while other CMS have overly complicated admins, which grow more a
by git-pull 9y ago
Beautiful admin interface. Probably the best compared to any web software by far.
Over years, while other CMS have overly complicated admins, which grow more and more complex, WordPress polished what it already had.
It's honed to writers.
WYSIWYG editor is solid, the white space, font and font sizes are pretty great considering it's a browser.
I've once heard a person say they prefer writing in the WordPress interface more than they do using Word.
Easy previewing of stuff in draft mode.
Autosaving.
Revisions.
Plugin and theme community (both open source and commercial) top tier.
- pjungwir 9y agoWeird to see this downvoted. When it came out, the Wordpress admin was beautiful and smooth---and everything else was ugly and clunky. It was like the iPhone vs feature phones. The handful of built-in themes looked great too. Whatever you think of Wordpress today, compared to its contemporary competitors it was outstanding.
- toyg 9y agoIt also produced very clean and valid XHTML out of the box, which was considered very important at the time; and made writing plugins trivial. It's important to remember that the competition at the time was Movable Type (Perl, complicated to install and extend, terrible output, expensive) and Blogger/blogspot (can't self-host, can't extend, limited control, again crappy output). WP was a dream in comparison.