Great comments on WordPress

I came across a post today that collects comments from a number of people who rated WordPress as one of the top tools they’ve used online. Here are some of them:

  • Amazing and simple tool to reweb your site. Very SEO friendly. Corinne Burkhert
  • I now have two WordPress blogs and though they are quite challenging to maintain, I love the availability of plugins and themes – Open Source at its best. Frances Bell
  • I manage class discussions out of class and provide additional information here following classes that students find difficult; if I am absent, this is where I can teach “remote class” (hasn’t happened yet) Sarah Davis
  • We use the self-hosted version for the company blog and dozens of WordPress.Com ones for learners. Great for encouraging reflections on their learning.Leia Fee

That’s just a few of them, there are loads more where they came from. You can use the page a bit like an mmf drawer where you store your snippets. If you ever need to reach in and pull out an idea why WordPress is awesome, just dig in.

WordPress Summer of Code 2010

WordPress is taking part in Google’s Summer of Code 2010. It’s a programme that allows students to spend Summer working with an Open Source project, with Google paying the stipend for them if the “internship” is successful. WordPress is one of the 150 Open Source organisations taking part in the programme. As jobs go, I think that’s an awesome idea. We’ve all had crappy jobs as students; whether it’s washing cars or giving out leaflets for the best treatment for hemorrhoids, so being paid to code is great; and being able to contribute to some of the great Open Source projects of today.

If you’re interested, check out the post on the WordPress blog.