Comments on: WordPress

By: Choosing a Blogging Engine

Choosing a Blogging Engine — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:42:59 +0000

[...] luminary, Dave Cross, had some comments on why he chose WordPress. Some of them are more than a little strange; he mentions that neither his OS, nor his web browser [...]

By: Obsession « Davblog

Obsession « Davblog — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:24:06 +0000

[...] to answer the religion question accurately at next year’s census and the other was about choice of blogging platform. Had she bothered to look at my main blog she would have found posts about political campaigning, [...]

By: Mutant

Mutant — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:09:47 +0000

I really like WordPress, for all the reasons you’ve listed. There are a lot of people in the Perl community who bash PHP, but to me, that’s no better than people who mindlessly bash Perl.

The only test of whether a language is worthwhile or not is: can people produce useful, quality applications with it? For the top 10-20 languages, the answer is obviously ‘yes’, or they wouldn’t be the top 10-20 languages.

It doesn’t mean you have to like a language, but implying that people who use it are stupid is just plain wrong.

By: Dave Cross

Dave Cross — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:10:58 +0000

Oh, I know all about Melody. I’m watching with interest and I’ll try out their first release when it appears in the next month or so. But it’s going to be some time until they have a community to rival WordPress’s.

By: Jakub Narębski

Jakub Narębski — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 09:06:33 +0000

What about Melody, a community fork of Movable Type?

By: Kevin Spencer

Kevin Spencer — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:25:41 +0000

After sticking with Movable Type on my own blog for years, I’m also at a point where switching to WordPress is starting to look like a good idea. I like to update the look & feel every now and again but doing that in MT is about as much fun as punching yourself in the face.

By: brian d foy

brian d foy — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:01:47 +0000

I really like WordPress. I think they’ve really figured out how to make it easy for normal people to use themes, widgets, and extra features. We use it for The Effective Perler and are quite happy with it. I really prefer things I don’t have to hack.

That’s not to say that a Perl engine couldn’t do that, but that people just haven’t done it with Perl. Most of the magic is HTML or Javascript they produce. The PHP portions still look really scary, but I guess a Template Toolkit file to do the same thing would look equally frightening.

By: Alexandr Ciornii

Alexandr Ciornii — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:37:24 +0000

I heard (my friend is looking for blog engine to install) that some move from WordPress to Movable Type, because WordPress is easy to hack, but Movable Type is not.