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By: Pakpromo :: Brands, Blogs, Social Networks, SEO, RSS » TypePad vs WordPress

Pakpromo :: Brands, Blogs, Social Networks, SEO, RSS » TypePad vs WordPress — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:14:09 +0000

[...] Who is the King of Blogging Tools? The debate goes on. Barry Bell did a nice comparison of TypePad vs Wordpress on his beautiful web site. [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:00:28 +0000

After using Movable Type for a number of months, I finally moved over to WordPress. Initially there was a bug with perl that affected MT posting which prompted me to look around. Then, after looking around I found WP and was happy with it. The bug disappeared but WP was too tempting.

The user support, the easy PHP coding and templating, the simple install… I had changed over several blogs in under 20mins from scratch. The only things I miss from MT is the pretty backend and the multiple blog interface, something easy to live without now that I use http://wbloggar.com/ software for publishing.

I did look at pLog once (after the changeover) because of its multi-blog interface and OpenSource-ness but it was still in development. I notice it isn’t anymore… http://www.plogworld.net/

By: Barry Bell

Barry Bell — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:27:46 +0000

Wordpress MU does fit the bill… but it’s not stable and there’s no real documentation or support for it right now, apart from the forums over at http://mu.wordpress.org/forums.

I did give it a go at one point, but ran into trouble configuring it to work with subdomains (amongst other things), and it seemed like there was more hacking to do than it was worth.

I also didn’t want to start a potentially successful network with software that could crumble at any minute!

I’m able to hack php a little, but that was way beyond my capabilities – especially without any real support docs.

If a stable version of MU was released, then yes, I’d definitely consider it.

By: Tack

Tack — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:14:06 +0000

I appreciate what you mean buy a blog network backed tool – but why don’t you think WordPress MU fits the bill? Do you want more native configurability within the platform to avoid coding/tweaking? Won’t that just lead to Bloating? I wonder if the whole point of plug-ins is to AVOID the bloat so the options are selectable on a case by case basis.
As for me – I am looking for a single user MULTI BLOG – which is do-able either with standard WP (multiple installation), WP Multi-user, or standard WP and a plug-in. Of course Single user (free) MT has this as a native ability too.

By: Barry Bell

Barry Bell — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:51:05 +0000

Well it was definitely the cost issue that swung it for me. I was also impressed with virtually all other Wordpress features, including ease of use.

But no matter which *current* software you use as a network backend, you’re probably always going to need some kind of hack or tweak to make the network work like you want it to work.

So… I think the market is wide open for anyone thinking about developing a dedicated blog network backend tool.

Incidentally, what are you testing the software for? A network, or standalone blogs?

By: Tack

Tack — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:24:06 +0000

I, too, am busy comparing WordPress and other platforms – admittedly – particularly Movable type :-)
So far, I have to agree with you. Wordpress wins on:-

Cost
Configurability
support
spam protection

Ease of use? Stay tuned.