Technology Presentation: WordPress

How does WordPress ask us to use it?

Type directly into the site or copy and paste from another word processor

Serves as a platform to share ideas/removes the idea of a private space of writing and allows for engagement with others

Constrains or affords certain types of writing?

May be a refreshing form of lower stakes writing for students/users

More friendly/casual setting than something such as Microsoft Word

Promotes a variety of writing topics, from cooking to fiction to travel to lifestyle and more

• Began in 2003
• WordPress known as the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world
• Geared towards beginners, but then has features to increase with your level of expertise
• Tool designed to remove HTML part of website, so to create a website you just have to write the content. WordPress took care of the rest.
• Helps give a reason to the explosion of blogs, as they simplified the blog creation process, allowing writers to focus on writing rather than computer aspects like html, sql, or ftp

https://www.keithrozario.com/2012/07/what-is-wordpress.html

Statistics:

1. Over 409 million people view more than 21.2 billion pages each month
2. WordPress  blogs written in 120 languages (71% in English,4.7% spanish, and 2.4% Indonesian…)

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Facilitates:

• Provides a space to type out ideas, connect with other bloggers, and promote categories with tags
• Allows a platform for multimodal text
• Allows options for (limited) creativity through fonts, colors, and themes
• Fairly easy to navigate
• Provides interaction aspect through use of comments/ ability to link to other sites
• Can easily add visuals (through images) by uploading your own pictures or referring others
• Could provide writers with more of an idea of audience
• Allows content to be published for free; enables sharing of ideas
• Can share blog through other platforms (such as social media) through links
• Can go back and look through older posts through the archive

Hinders:

• Must have Internet access to use
• Constraining in the sense that it is fairly linear
• Does not allow for much movement with text
• More elaborate choices of themes are available for a price
• Does not easily allow for many outside of the box ideas/fairly standard
• Creates levels since some features cost money
• Possibility of advertisements

Fits into the work of Composition and Rhetoric by serving as a place to write and easily share ideas with others, all over the world and in different fields. The sense of writing collaboration is found using blogs. Can also search for certain topics using the tags, making research more accessible. Allows for the joining of visuals/images/videos as well as alphabetic text.