Wordpress is free. What's not to love?
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Oh, you still use Wordpress for your blog? That's adorable.
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#22I'd rather use wordpress than yet another blogging platform that gives you a narrow strip of text in the middle with 2/3 of the screen being empty space.
That's a theme issue. It has nothing to do with the platform at all.
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#23I'd rather use wordpress than yet another blogging platform that gives you a narrow strip of text in the middle with 2/3 of the screen being empty space.
Be fair; the default WordPress theme does that too. :)
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#24Love Wordpress - the fact that it's more than just a blog is why I use it. If I were to just blog nowadays, I'd prefer a static site generator using Markdown above everything else.
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#25I actually have a hard time imagining why I'd use Wordpress anymore. If I want a blog, I'll probably use Ghost. If I want a CMS, I find django-CMS to be pretty awesome (I'm biased because I had to learn Django for a job, though). Wordpress seems like a PITA to work with, though to its credit it has an enormous ecosystem around it.
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#26"wordpress is an unauthenticated remote shell that, as a useful side feature, also contains a blog" - http://www.bash.org/?949214=
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#27I used to love WordPress. Now is too feature heavy for a blog and not flexible enough as a CMS (without a lot of customisation)..I might give Ghost a try, feels a lot like Medium. How about the SEO though?
SEO is fine. More info here http://www.metacotta.com/ghost-seo/
Interesting read. Last year I wrote a simple blogging platform in PHP myself, in about a week, rather than go through the trouble of integrating Wordpress with the rest of my PHP site. I sometimes wondered how SEO-optimized the result was compared to a full-blown WP install. Feels good to see that I hit all the recommendations in this article... I guess my effort is at least about as good as Ghost then, if not WP.
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#28I use WordPress because it has a set of hooks/filters/APIs that make it incredibly easy to build themes and plugins.
However, I'm annoyed by the 'money is evil' socialist sentiment that pervades much of the community, and as cool as Matt might be, he's quick to demonize people/companies that differ from him philosophically.
Because of that, I would be happy to start building for Ghost too. I'm just waiting for a more robust API, or at least a bit more info on how to develop for it.
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#29"Wordpress is now a maddeningly complicated CMS and not a blogging platform."
Wha? Complicated? Said no one ever.
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#30"Wordpress is now a maddeningly complicated CMS and not a blogging platform."
Wha? Complicated? Said no one ever.