Why does a TYPO3 developer use WordPress?

Having developed websites with TYPO3 since 2005, why would I want to use WordPress for blogging?

TYPO3 is an enterprise content management system – it should easily handle something as simple as a blog. TYPO3 can, but when you are busy building websites for others it can be a challenge to find the time and resources to build your own things in any technology.

Here’s some reasons for making this in WordPress:

  1. WordPress is popular and simple to use.
  2. WordPress is fast to get blogging. TYPO3 does not yet have many high quality packages that provide the same “minutes out of the box and you can use it experience”.
  3. Many of our customers want WordPress or are already using it. If we use the same tools we can better support them.
  4. Using different tools can create a cross-pollination of ideas. There are many features of TYPO3 and WordPress that could be improved on by learning from other content management systems.
  5. WordPress like TYPO3 is Open Source so I can have full access to fix any problems in the software myself.

Hello world!

Blogging with WordPress so far is very simple and you can do many things right out of the box. I have slightly adjusted the Twenty Fourteen theme that came as standard. I uploaded a header image, edited the CSS to center the blog on my large screen and edited this Hello world! post. My next post will be a screen shot of the current state of the blog to show what can be done from a  blank webserver folder to first blog post in 20 minutes.