Hosted blogging platform

Post by maguay » Mon, Sep 06, 2010, 12:22 AM UTC

Tumblr is awesome, and in my opinion the easiest hosted blog platform to use. WordPress.com, though, is the most powerful, and you can actually use a couple of the themes basically as a free hosted CMS for a small website with static pages. Another advantage of WordPress.com is that it works almost the same as full WordPress.org, so anything you learn on it would be knowledge you can use with any WordPress-powered site. At the end of the day, it really depends on what you need:

- Tumblr is by far the easiest, and has the most features (domain mapping, CSS/HTML editing) for free

- WordPress.com is the most powerful, and has more advanced features (full site with just pages, shortcodes) than most other free hosted platforms.

Post by lfborjas » Mon, Sep 06, 2010, 1:58 AM UTC

If you're a developer and want a free solution and don't mind hacking up your own blog, I totally recommend http://pages.github.com/ it's powered by jekyll (http://jekyllrb.com/). I used to use tumblr because it's easy and highly customizable, haven't used posterous but the fact that you can post via mail with very granular control and integration with other sites looks awesome. Yet, if you feel like hacking a little, github pages is a rad choice -you can write in the markup language you like better and the text editor you love; and can even do it offline, you just have to git push when you want to update stuff. Also, it allows custom domains.

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