Wordpress.com – Great, but still not enough for me
Tuesday
Apr 25, 2006
A couple of tech journalist contacts of mine have moved to WordPress.com from their previous Blogger-hosted blogs. Well, it’s either they’re just trying it out, or are using WordPress.com as an alternate blog host (such as myself), but for others, it looks more like a definite move in both cases.
So who just found new homes at wordpress.com:
- Erwin Oliva: http://cyberbaguioboy.wordpress.com
- Joey Alarilla: http://babelmachine.wordpress.com
Actually, WordPress.com is great. I’d think it’s a better alternative to Blogger for beginning bloggers and for those who’d rather not have the headache of maintaining their own sites. But I still find the limitations stifling, for instance the fact that one can’t install plugins, customize themes (apart from the built-in customization functions by the theme itself), or add AdSense ads (unless WordPress.com installs a widget for this).
Still, it’s great to be able to play around with a WP installation. Unlike Blogger, it’s easier to manage, as one doesn’t need to know how to code (or cut and past code). And this also leads to less likelihood of screwing up one’s blog.
Comments
taorist
April 26th, 2006 at 8:08 am
Yep, tried it out as well.
I find it waaay better than blogger in a lot of respects. The only catch was the template customization.
You can read my post re: this matter:
http://taorist.i.ph/blogs/taorist/index.php?item=doppleganger-of-an-old-flame
Manuel Viloria
April 27th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Hi Angelo… you might want to check your link to wp dot com.
J. Angelo Racoma
April 27th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Thanks for the heads up, Manuel. The autho-hyperlink plugins, well, auto-hyperlinks anything with a dot com, dot net, dot org, or any other popular ccTLD. Will edit accordingly.
Cheers.
sonnie
April 29th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
Am presently exploring wordpress with Sonnie’s.Porch while maintaining 2 other blogs; Solomon’s Kiosk at Multiply and c r o s s r o a d s at bolgspot.I agree, wordpress is much more user friendly than blogspot. But Multiply is better in providing integrated storage for photos, videos, mp3’s and more. Multipy also provides flexible and multi- level security access without need for passwords. Downside of multiply is its limitation on themes and customization (or perhaps I just don’t know how to play with it). Wordpress have it’s own strength, like the flexibility to provide a download link for the articles I wrote. And it’s ability to create multiple pages in an easy way. The downside as well is the limitation to fully customize the theme and limited customization of the side bar. It seems we can’t enjoy the best of all worlds…
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December 26th, 2006 at 10:52 am
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James McCarthy
December 26th, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Letting christmas fade off to the past and going thru some of my bookmarks…I was here before because I have this blog bookmarked…. But Ido not recognize it, so you must have made some serious changes in the design?