Add my bloggy voice to the rapidly growing chorus that can attest to the flexibility of Wordpress, not just as a blogging platform, but as a general push-button platform on which to unleash any of a variety of tools on the web.  It’s always been good enough to host your blog, and even a few pages for a small business, but some of the recent tools that have been added have lowered the obstacles to adoption so drastically that there is almost no reason not to have a website made, with dynamic content, hosted on Wordpress.

Last night I had the privilege of presenting Wordpress to a group of artists and writers who were interested in using Wordpress to power their own sites at St. Louis’s Luminary Center for the Arts, and I was struck once again by how flexible the product is.  Some wanted a blog, plain and simple.  But there were several photographers, a sculptor, a few representatives of bands, a couple of writers, and other folks who simply heard about the presentation.  As they went aorund the room describing what it was that the hoped to get out of Wordpress, it became clear that every single wish they had would be easily handled by the platform.  This was not a claim Wordpress could’ve made just a few years ago, but now it boasts such a flexible and real set of tools that it encompasses all these applications.

It’s an exciting time to be a guy who likes Wordpress.  No shortage of opportunities to use the knowledge I’ve accumulated, for sure.