• NextGEN Gallery — which creates these beautiful photo galleries,
• Google XML Sitemaps — which creates a dynamic site map and notifies the major search engines of site changes, and
• Wordbook — which makes a note on my facebook every time I write a post on my site.

WordPress creates a set of “hooks” that can be used by scripts–”plugins”–to interface with the site.

My plugin is going to be a Project Management Tool that will allow teams to use the wordpress admin console as a center for their project task lists. With no further ado I created a dossier reviewing the planning phase of the plugin:

See the PDF: Project Management

Why this matters

In the past to update your website, users would use a tool such as dreamweaver to create, edit, add, or delete content and then create a FTP connection to transfer the updated files.  Learning the basics of dreamweaver can take a fair amount of time-thus discouraging the average person from contributing to the internet.

WordPress creates an admin console that is extremely user-friendly to use and is accessible online-available anywhere your website is.  This empowers the average person–having very limited knowledge of html–with the ability to create and manage content on their very own website.  With increased accessibility you can manage your website from anywhere; right now for example, this article is being posted from a public internet connection at the Apple store in King of Prussia.

This technology enables users of all skill levels to share their knowledge with the world–making the internet that much richer!

How wordpress works is another question for another day; we will be revisiting this..

My question is “All things considered, is wordpress an innovation or an enabler?”  Is it means for productivity, does it create a platform that allows innovation, or is it a health mix of both?