A few years ago, I moved the real estate articles from their home on the DFWREIN web site to the message boards. My hope was that the staff at DFWREIN would have an easier time adding articles to the web site. It seems to me that only a few of the DFWREIN staff members ever knew about the forums at all. Adding the articles there was a bust.

This web site comes with a content management system. Every article or page is really a list of posts in a WordPress database. I modified a StudioPress theme which already many of these conventions installed. This means that articles are as easy to enter as any post. The only difference is that the article author is not usually the same person who added the article.

Another reason for adding articles to the DFWREIN forum was to get people to reply to them. Was it good? Did it suck? Is there some correction needed? That worked. A little. Very few people write in forums when compared with the number of people who read forums. It’s something like a 1 or 2 percent ratio, except in paid forums where members feel obligated to post messages.

Articles will go into the Articles category as well as the category for that particular article.