April 15, 2004

wordpress

Has anyone heard anything about wordpress, a blog publishing system similar to MT? Mark at Mindful Musings recently switched to it, and I just think the wordpress powered blogs I've seen (including Mark's) look much more polished than the MT ones.

Posted by joy at April 15, 2004 11:20 AM | TrackBack
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Actually, my blog has always been WordPress powered (after a very short stint with b2). If you really want to know the power of Wordpress and would like to find out more, visit (one of) my other blog(s) http://weblogtoolscollection.com and the wordpress forums at http://www.wordpress.org/support/
:-)

Posted by: Mark at April 15, 2004 06:44 PM

I use WordPress as well, after moving from b2 a little under a year ago. Its AWESOME. I've played with MT and I've found WordPress to be a lot easier to set up and configure. And its a lot faster, since its all out of MySQL instead of static pages.

The only drawback is it doesn't support multiple blogs, which would be nice.

Posted by: Chris at April 15, 2004 09:10 PM

Wordpress, pMachine, and Nucleus are similar in that they dynamically generate pages with php from a mySQL database. This gives them enormous advantages over MT, and lets them do some things MT can't.

Which one you choose is largely a personal matter. It seems as if WP and pMachine are much more polished "out of the box," and WP is especially elegant.

However, if you code your own pages (as you do), I'd be less concerned about whether the default templates are good, and more concerned about which one I found easiest to use and such.

For me, that was Nucleus, although I gave b2 (WP's predecessor) and pMachine a good hard look.

Posted by: kevin whited at April 18, 2004 06:08 PM

MT can emit PHP just fine if you want dynamic stuff going on (and if ultra-configurable dynamic content is that big a deal, why not just write your own weblog engine in PHP?). Static pages make more sense for most weblogs, from a server-load and security point of view.

Posted by: fluffy at April 18, 2004 10:23 PM

Why not just write your own weblog engine in PHP?

Because several are already available, with differing strengths and weaknesses. Assessing those seemed, in part, to be the point of Joy's post. :)

As for server-load, tell Kos that. He had to dump MT because it wasn't robust enough to handle his comments. MT is not the only solution, or always the best solution, for the preferences and needs of folks. Diversity is our friend!

Posted by: kevin whited at April 21, 2004 11:58 AM

I'm an avid MT user. Most of the reasons I haven't switched to WP are that keeping URL's and such intact is very difficult to do (comment URL's, etc, as well).

Sorry, but when you've got thousands of links coming in you don't really want to have any of them break.

So, I'll likely stick with MT until there's a compelling reason to switch.

Posted by: Jeremy C. Wright at April 21, 2004 12:56 PM