Hi What is best free system for blogging? Wordpress or drupal or others? Would appreciate any comments. Thanks.
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.
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.
TextPattern has built in tools for that: http://textpattern.com/faq/114/can-textpattern-import-entries
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.
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.
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.
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.