What WordPress 3.0 means to businesses like yours.

WordPress, long known as a powerful, flexible, and easy to use blogging platform, has grown up.

Over the past couple of years, it’s evolved into a powerful, flexible, easy to use content management system (CMS). And businesses (some of them major companies, right) have noticed. Businesses don’t use WordPress because it’s “cool” or because it’s easy to use (although it is both of those). Businesses use WordPress because they’ve discovered it’s reliable, powerful, and allows them to build the functionality they need to serve and connect with their markets.

Your business can benefit as well. As you may know, WordPress is an open source application (it’s free). You may need to hire a WordPress developer (like Evo) to help you customize a website that meets your needs, but that could easily cost less than your last website design and implementation.

And the timing could not be better. With the release of WordPress 3.0, both power and flexibility are cranked up a few notches, making it the premier CMS available for business websites. What are some of the new features? Without getting technical, some of the major enhancements include:

Custom taxonomies – available in an earlier version of WordPress, but easier to use and allows for hierarchical relationships

Custom post types – allows greater flexibility to display different kinds of custom content types outside pages and posts

Enhanced menu – drag and drop to re-order menu items and mix categories, page sections, and offsite links for complete flexibility

Multisite feature – allows multiple sites on only one WordPress installation, greatly simplifying site management issues