After trying myspace (bleh) and Windows Live Spaces (double bleh) I’ve decided to try Wordpress.
Now imagine my surprise when my webhost includes it in as a value added package and even when I install it myself to my site, it works flawlessly. There are a million easy to use options, tons of themes, widgets, plugins, etc.
Oh wait, it’s a blog. I’m supposed to write crap, but the TOYS! Oh the toys!
Someone save me from myself as I have wasted the entire morning futzing around with my blog. Right now I’m waiting for a photo album pluginy thing to upload.
Now, who is gonna make an SDMB widget so I can see what threads I’m subscribed to have responses?
I like it, but I was less than thrilled with its interface for writing/posting. I set up a family blog, but not everyone who wanted to blog was comfortable with it.
I’ve yet to find a good photo gallery plugin; I just cross-post from Flickr.
Other than that, though, Wordpress is terrific. Once you get going, be sure to activate the Akismet comment-spam filter; you’ll need to get a key-code of some kind (I forget the details), but it’s not too complicated, it’s free, and it WORKS. On occasion I’ve had it catch up to 100 spam-comments a day, and I think only one or two have ever gotten past it.
I LOVE Wordpress. I use it on my personal blog on my domain, and the media network I work for is switching over to it for our Technology and Gadgets section. It’s versatile and awsome. And it has some really AWSOME plugins.
I actually switched my blog from Wordpress to Blogger because it kept losing my posts. I’d write up a long post, try to publish it, and it’d disappear. Gone. Happened several times, and I finally said fuck it.
Several other things didn’t work right for me, as well. In closing, not a fan.
