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Best blog system?

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by uberman, Jul 13, 2006.

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  1. #1
    Hi
    What is best free system for blogging? Wordpress or drupal or others?

    Would appreciate any comments.
    Thanks.:D
     
    uberman, Jul 13, 2006 IP
  2. FIVE539

    FIVE539 Peon

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    I think wordpress
     
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    afactory Well-Known Member

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    Wordpress, imho
     
    afactory, Jul 13, 2006 IP
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    I'm using wordpress as well. There are plenty of plug ins and themes floating about if anything doesn't work the way you want it to.
     
    lucid_one, Jul 13, 2006 IP
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    sizzler_chetan Prominent Member

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    #5
    Drupal is something like a big crap for me.

    Wordpress voted here.
     
    sizzler_chetan, Jul 13, 2006 IP
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    MattUK Notable Member

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    Wordpress for something simple, Joomla for more complicated sites.
     
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    Blogmaster Blood Type Dating Affiliate Manager

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    #7
    wordpress for sure :)
     
    Blogmaster, Jul 13, 2006 IP
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    Richie_Ni Illustrious Member

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    #8
    Of course I'll choose Wordpress!
     
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    #9
    Can you guys show us a good example of a dupral blog?
     
    Blogmaster, Jul 14, 2006 IP
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    dct Finder of cool gadgets

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    #11
    Also check out Movabletype

    I use WordPress and it is good in many ways but it is very resource hungry if you have a busy site. I get ~15,000 WP page views a day which now requires a dedicated server. If the pages where static (other blogging engines can create static pages) a shared hosting account would of coped fine.
     
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    MattUK Notable Member

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    Is is easy to migrate from Wordpress to MT?
     
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    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    Based on my quick research I've almost decided on TextPattern.
     
    T0PS3O, Jul 14, 2006 IP
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    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    For me wordpress acts fine...cause i can mod it whatever i want and more over im used to this format. These dayz you can actually find a lot of plugins making your job a lot simpler.
     
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    That's surprising they don't offer that. I'm not as clued up on blogs as I should be, but I was under the impression people started out with WP and then upgraded to MT as a paid soultion when they generated enough revenue. I'd have thought an easy way to import old WP posts would be vital.
     
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    I really don't see any advantage MT has over WP, regardless of the free/paid difference.
     
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    MT can create static HTML pages when you make a post whilst WP has to create the page each time a request is made. From a resource point of view it makes a big difference.
     
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    Yeah, I've noticed that most of the large blogs I see use MT so there obviously has to be a reason for them using a paid solution over a free one.
     
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