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nelliemuller said:

I use wordpress and I like it but I also use other blogs. What makes wordpress unique?

libin said:

I am using WordPress to take care my blog. But I didn’t try others much.

As far as I can tell, wordpress is very simple to install and manage. And there is a big community to support and provide huge number of useful themes and plugins.

nelliemuller said:

Can you share your blog or is it personal?

Andrew Brown said:

I don’t like wordpress, they’re is too much configuration involved and it can have a steep learning curve.

I use mephisto for blogging.

In my school program our course was being taught on wordpress and it was the worst choice so far. I would have rather them to use blackboard.

I created my web-site both in Mephisto and Wordpress and it took five times longer to get the same result in Wordpress.

The advantage of wordpress is that it does everything. Its worst advantage is that it does everything.

libin said:

@nelliemuller, my blog is on http://libinpan.com. Please feel free to take a look.

@Andrew, I totally agree with you. WordPress is very powerful and it is a little hard to start. Well, that’s why we have a community for. :)

As a Ruby developer, I do like mephisto or even Typo very much. I gave them some try at the very beginning, there were two things which stopped me:

1. Hosting. Finding a cheap PHP hosting service is so much easier at this moment. But I believe it will change soon.

2. Stability. Mephisto, Typo or Rails all live in a blooding edge now. And I would rather spend more time on my blog posts than blog itself.

Anyway, I will give Mephisto more try for sure.

nelliemuller said:

http://libinpan.com

Andrew Brown said:

@libin

1. cheap hosting for Rails – Site5, HostGator, Dreamhost

2. Mephisto is plenty stable. I ran they’re test and it all worked for me. How can I validate that wordpress is working correctly? It doesn’t come from with any tests. Have they written any test code for wordpress?

3. "I would rather spend more time on my blog posts than blog itself" - thats why I use Mephisto. I didn't have to learn how it worked, I just started changing things. They're isn't a huge guessing game how a Rails app works.

Were you just more proficient in PHP than Ruby back them so it was more for a practical choice to go with wordpress?

laurellion said:

@Andrew: RE:”In my school program our course was being taught on wordpress and it was the worst choice so far. I would have rather them to use blackboard.”

Things don’t change…. but it doesn’t matter what platform or CMS you plan to use…. you need to work mainly on your content and it’s purpose for being there.

Andrew Brown said:

@laurellion I think if you provide them with a platform that has good limitations and conventions that its more likely they’ll produce better courseware than in a platform that is ambiguous. But you are right when you say anyone can fudge a system and I think we seen enough of that.

laurellion said:

@ well said Mr. Brown