It hasn’t taken long for Wordpress to become one of the most popular blogging frameworks around the world. I remember using Wordpress when it first came out and it was great, but the public hadn’t really got their minds around blogging and so things didn’t evolve (at first).

Over the past 6 months to a year or so, we’ve seen Wordpress turn into an almost completely customizable CMS (Content Management System) system. Watching guys like Mark and Adii customize the LAF of Wordpress shows us that it’s a system with endless boundaries. The increase in available plugins has also proven that Wordpress is capable of doing basically anything. Not to forget the great SEO tendancies.

Because Wordpress is becoming a framework which may be used as a CMS, web agencies are starting to build clients’ websites on the framework because of it’s dynamic nature and easy-to-use dashboard, which caters for multiple privileged users. Something that hasn’t really been tackled too much is the customization of the Wordpress Dashboard and Login Screens. If agencies are building systems for clients, I think it’s time that the dashboard be branded accordingly. I have spent hours customizing the dashboard of iMod and it really does make a difference. That being said, I have done some Googling and it’s clear that people have created dashboard themes, it’s just not as popular (yet) – yes, you can download themes for your dashboard.

Each and every day that passes sees us experiencing something new and amazing about Wordpress, with version 2.5 on the brink of being released, people are already talking about what they want in Wordpress 2.5 and I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy!

It’s going to be amazing to see how deep the rabbit hole goes!