Wordpress Review
I am a new convert to Wordpress. Before this I was a blogger blogger though and through. Since my conversion though I’ve learnt that there are some really great things about Wordpress, and still some thing that I prefer about Blogger.
1. I like that Wordpress allows you to create multiple pages. It really makes it look more like a website then a blog and for a lot of people, their blog is their website. For me I have 87purpleelephants.com and this site is linked to it with /blog. Anyway, I find this to be a really positive aspect of Wordpress.
2. It took me a long time to start using Wordpress, partly because I really liked blogger, partly because I was proud and stubborn, but mostly because I had tried to come over a few times, and it was hard to work out. I am certainly not techno-idiot, I know more then the average person about computers and websites, and so that’s why it surprised me how… not simple, it was. My recommendation? It would have be so much better with a quick tutorial page.
3. The options for sidebar widgets in wordpress impressed me. There were lots of them. I missed not being able to easily put my adsense in, hence not having any on this site. The thing I really liked about blogger is that it linked to so nicely with everything google. Having a gmail address made it really easy, and also having picassa on my computer, before I switched to linux, made putting photos on my blog easy as well. Wordpress is just… Wordpress, nothing else much combined with it, and I miss that.
4. Having your categories down the side, and such a range of things to do when you post made the transition a little bit more enjoyable, even if it was a little overwhelming at the start. Trackbacks, the upload section, do I need this?!
5. As I just said in number 3 I really miss how blogger use to work with everything. If I used google calender, or any of the google apps then I could easily blog them. I liked also having the option to access to the google programs at the top of blogger as well. I felt like everything I was using was working well and together. Wordpress doesn’t have that, which is a minus.
6. Want to know one thing I don’t like? The fact that when I post I can’t just have something ONE LINE BELOW it has to be two below, like a new pargraph. And I think that somtimes Wordpress is to clever for its own good. If I press backspace ONCE, I only want it to go back once, not twice.
7. Overall, when I use Wordpress (now) I find the site relatively easy to use. It looks clean and has lots of options- something I like. I also like that most of the Wordpress blogs look clean, and the majority professional as well. A sitemap, or as I’ve said before, tutorial would definitely be helpful though, just so I don’t have to click through so many things to find what I’m after.
So those are some good and bad things about Wordpress. I would recommend it, it’s professional and works well. Just don’t be afraid to ask for help if you need it.
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February 27 2007 03:39 pm | List and Review and Tech
February 28th, 2007 at 2:16 am
jsonv droppin… woist theres a new updates for wordpress, wordpress ella 2.1 to 2.1.1. i just upgraded mine. it includes about 30 bug fixes, mostly minor things around encoding, XML-RPC, the object cache, and HTML code.
February 28th, 2007 at 7:13 am
Thanks for the comment. I think I probably just forgot to mention that I use Wordpress.com, and so there my problem lies.
I would the other, but from what I’ve seen of my friend Michael using it, that may be even more confusing!!
Thanks though,
Talia
March 8th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
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