8 Different Ways to Use WordPress You Didn’t Think Of

WordPress has become one of the world’s most popular content management systems because of its flexibility, which makes it an excellent platform for virtually any type of website. What’s more, themes and plugins are plentiful, making customization and enhancement fast and easy.

Here are eight types of websites you can build with WordPress:

1. Social Networking Website
   WordPress has several dedicated social networking plugins that can turn a basic site into a powerful social network, including WP Symposium and BuddyPress.
2. Product Review Website
   Turning a WP blog into a professional product review website is easy because there are several excellent product rating plugins available, including WP Customer Reviews and Xavin’s Review Ratings, both of which can be extensively customized.
3. E-commerce Website
   WordPress is the perfect platform for small as well as for large e-commerce businesses, thanks to its premium e-commerce themes, and top-notch shopping cart plugins like WP eCommerce, eShop, wooCommerce. All these offer much more than a powerful shopping cart – they also help you better manage product listings and sales.
4. Online Directory
   WPDirectory Pro is a premium plugin that turns a WordPress website into a versatile, SEO-friendly, online directory, that can generate revenue for you.
5. Membership Website
   Setting a membership website with WordPress is easy, thanks to a free plugin called Membership.
6. Online Portal
   WordPress comes by default with good SEO, and makes it easy for you to manage links, which means it is a good platform to build an online portal on. A plugin like MyArcadePlugin Pro makes things even easier.
7. Q&A Website
   Creating a Yahoo Answers-like Q&A niche website is fairly easy. All you need is a plug in like QHYPERLINK “http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/degree3-qa/”&HYPERLINK “http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/degree3-qa/”A by Degree3.
8. Wiki Website
   Whether you want to build a wiki website for a video game, artist, or for a niche, you can do it with WordPress if you use the free Wiki plugin, which makes the adding of a wiki to your site as easy as creating a post.

In the end remember that with WordPress you can build almost any type of website, provided that you use the right plugins, and choose an appropriate theme.

About Stephane Brault

Stephane is a web developer and system administrator with over 18 years of experience. Specialized in PHP programming and Linux server administration, he also provided development and consulting services to SMBs for several years before becoming an online entrepreneur.