Having designed and developed websites for the past seven years, lately I've found WordPress' feature set, usability, extensibility, and open source community make it an ideal CMS solution for many of my clients. Now as a way of generating some interaction with my peers and marketing my abilities, I have added my own WordPress blog to my wenderhost.com domain.
In the coming weeks and months, I have a list of article ideas that I plan to work through. As I write, I'll be drawing upon my expertise as a technical writer, graphic designer, PHP programmer, and freelance consultant. If you subscribe to my blog, you can expect tutorials, WordPress Themes and Plugins, and other tips, tricks, and insights from my perspective as a freelance solutions provider.
Just this week, I've started things out with these offerings:
- WordPress MU for Large Organizations
Find out how disabling public registrations and designing a universal template has made WordPress MU an excellent scalable website solution for a large church. - Configuring Google Apps Gmail on a WHM/CPanel Webserver
Last month I switched to using Google Apps Gmail for my michaelwender.com domain. Read my article to learn about a common mail routing mishap that may occur if you do this, and what I had to do to fix the issue on my WHM/CPanel webserver. - New WP Plugin: WenderHost Subpages Widget
Today marks the release for my first WordPress Plugin. Click here to download it and see it in action.
Finally, you'll notice that this blog is quite new. As of this post, it is three days old. However, I'm no newbie to blogging as I've been posting on my personal site since September of 2001. Rather, I've started this blog to provide a better channel for talking about my professional endeavors.
Plus, as a fun experiment, I am interested to see what some good content and some frequent updates will do for my page rank and visitor count. Since its inception (circa the Fall of 2006), I've maintained wenderhost.com primarily as a static site featuring marketing material for services that I provide to my clients. During that time it has served well as a "virtual business" card to which I have referred prospective clients. As of today, the Google PR for the homepage is 3 out of 10, and last month five unique visitors came here each day. I am interested to see if and when these numbers will climb.
In the meantime, feel free to read a post, subscribe to my feed, or download a plugin. And, of course, incoming links are always welcome! 
