Saturday, 12 July 2014

Six Out-of-the-Box and Exceedingly Innovative Uses of WordPress



We have come to a day and age in which people either use static HTML websites or they are simply smitten with the WordPress CMS for developing and managing websites. Of course we do have various other tech Nazis who prefer Drupal and Joomla etc, but that is not the point here. The point is all the ways in which a user may use and reuse and gentrify their WordPress websites. Here in this write up, we have shortlisted 6 different highly intriguing ways in which users can play around their WordPress site and get it to perform certain much sought after, highly creative and out of the box tasks.
Intrigued already? Check out our list of creative WordPress uses below:

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE A PRIVATE SOCIAL NETWORK OF YOUR OWN?

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Private social networks are the latest in thing today. The opportunity to dwell into a niche based networking site and develop a complete community around it is simply amazing. Besides, such websites are steadily giving competition to Facebook, and experts believe soon the concept of Facebook will be moot and users will concentrate on a typical niche based social network, one that entails their choices, needs and ideologies that they connect best with.
One of the simplest ways to start a social network with WordPress is by using the P2 theme, which offers a Twitter like functionality to the website, allowing the users to add friends, post updates etc. Another great option would be to try Buddy Press out, and get the social network in action. Besides, you may also hire professional WordPress developers to render the similar results with the best combination of their technical expertise and WP-Plugins knowledge.

YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN A WORDPRESS E-STORE LIKE YESTERDAY!

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Okay, if you have not gotten a WordPress powered ecommerce portal for your business yet, you owe yourself an apology. Seriously! There is no better use of WordPress than to own an ecommerce portal – well, that is to assume that you already have a blog. WordPress offers various fastidious plugins for starting an ecommerce venture, such as WooCommerce, WordPress Ecommerce Plugin and a lot more. And then you can anytime opt for professional development, which would convert your static HTML to WordPress and include the plugins which best meets your requirements. You may not know us, but we know the internet market, and trust us when we tell you that in a day and age where everyone prefers rather to order online than visit a physical store, your websites of the business store NEEDS ecommerce functionality.

GET YOUR OWN PERSONAL WIKI

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WordPress enables you to own your own personal Wiki like site – how cool is that?! The WordPress Wiki theme only costs a mere $40 but allows you to enjoy Wiki like functionalities to your blog, i.e. with this theme in place you can create user logins, post content, manage user accounts and categories and do a lot more. Besides, it is entirely searchable, letting you enjoy higher visibility and search engines benefits. Besides, at $50 you can easily own a Wikeasi website. And if that is not enough, we have one more piece of information for you – there is a plugin available which lets you enjoy the very same functionality – WordPress Wiki LIte.

A COLLABORATION TOOL FOR YOUR THRIVING TEAM

Now if you are not looking for the sort of investment that Share Point application development services require, you can simply develop a collaborative and productivity tool for your WordPress site and synergize the efforts of the team working on a project etc. There is a plugin known as Project Tasks, which allows the WordPress owners to turn their website into a project management system and manage all the tasks that you have for the project. You can also easily track the progress report and maintain a log of the entire work being done so far. Besides, CollabPress offers the similar functionality, only much improved and fastidious. Thus, you options are open to use the WordPress blog or site as an efficient and meticulous project management system.

A MERITED HELP DESK

Another brilliant use of the capabilities and potential of WordPress comes in creating a heavy duty and services oriented Help Desk. With the aid of help desk various business owners and service providers can have their customers submit questions and queries, support tickets and a lot more. Besides, the user centric system that WordPress is, it allows the site owners to completely control all of these submissions.
One example that entails this functionality is of Support Press, a Woo Themes prodigy. Although it is a premium paid theme, but it allows the visitors to your website to submit tickets, while in the administrative panel, you or your assistant can assign these tickets to other members of the team. Besides, the theme also creates a knowledge base for the users, so that you need not tend to the similar queries repeatedly.

MISCELLANEOUS: JOB BOARDS, DIRECTORIES AND CLASSIFIED

Lastly, at the risk of being miscellaneous here, we would like to say that users can even use their WordPress blog or site for creating job boards, directories and classifieds. Whether you require a business directory, a classified section or a job board, there is hardly a suitable plugin that you would not find in here. Thus, whether you are looking for Yellow Pages like service edition or something more, you can get it down with the right kind of plugin and development team in place. Besides, you can even gain significantly from this venture, by monetizing the same, and having your users pay you with every job posting that they submit.

AN END NOTE

This brings us to an end of this post. Let us know if you enjoyed it and whether you are considering shifting HTML website to WordPress and using any one or all of the above mentioned functionalities in the comments section below.

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