Recently I came across this blog entry, by one of the authors of WordPress, that mentions a site with some serious coding that uses WordPress as part of the backend. It also calls WordPress a “framework” — that may be a step too far. But I guess that others are also onto the idea that you can integrate a good old fashioned engineered website with WordPress.

Oh, at some point I will figure out what pings, trackbacks, etc mean in the WordPress bloggy world.

Recently someone asked to put a squeeze page into their website. It’s the idea of asking a user’s email before they can see an article, but allowing them to opt out of providing said email. There’s some question of how to do this and still have the site’s content visible to search engines. Anyway, I googled “squeeze page” and came up with a bunch of hot air and sales pitches for software … all on pages that would have been embarrassing in 1998. Then I thought … what about wordpress plugins?

I googled “wordpress squeeze page”…

Much better, more technical results without the appalling sales pitches.

My mantra…put “wordpress” in every google query.