uh, why don't some of you let me borrow your 10s of thousands of traffic so I can test my own 2.0 upgrade
So if I'm launching a new site using wordpress 2.0 as a CMS what do I need to do. I have the semiologic static front page plugin - will that help lessen the server load? I want to be prepared for this site to a huge success...
Jim you've got nothing to worry about if you've just launched a new site - unless its already getting 15,000 visitors a day. Wordpress is still kick ass for most sites and purposes.
I want to be prepared for the 15,000 a day though. What do I need to do to be ready so I'm not trying to convert to MT in a few moths because wordpress 2.0 is so server intensive that my millions of readers can't access my site?
Well, since I definately don't have the knowledge to do this, I nominate Shawn to build this. I have a news blog, a personal blog, and possibly an upcoming second news blog that I will be happy to have your link on. I am fairly new to the world of blogs, but I will agree that the move from 1.5 to 2.0 has been a major step backwards.
I'm a big time Joomla/Mambo fan but it doesn't come with comments, moderation (& Akismet), pinging out of the box. It's a CMS not a blogging tool just as WordPress isn't suited for the task of CMS. You can make both systems do both jobs but they're best "sticking to their knitting" IMO
Sarah, assuming you host both on your own server, what advantage in your opinion is there to Wordpress over Blogger? I've been using Blogger. I was taking a look at Wordpress but it seems to me to be clunky and unecessarily complicated to set up and customize - other than the multiple categories, which I really don't need at this point, what else would convince me to switch?
wordpress and bloggers are for more simple things... whereas movabletype is a much more complex and elegant system. imo
I'm a techie so the ability to add plugins such as a syntax highlighter and have tags and a tag cloud help me make the blog the way I want it. I've been able to make the lists of posts any which way I want and control the moderation of comments in a seemingly infinite number of ways - I chose Akismet. I'm able to control the sites that I ping when I post, and have a Google SiteMap (except as I saw with the v7ndotcom elursrebmem competition the blogger posts were indexed first). As far as templates go - there's more flexibility as you can have a variety of layouts depening on whether it's the "index" versus a "single" post, and you can add your own. You can have a "page" as well which is static content and not date reliant. Then there's my DH's blog which is a clean v2 blog with nothing too fancy added. There's probably no huge advantage for him in having it in WordPress rather than a self hosted blogger. I just need to whip him until he posts on it
i'm guessing not since it crashed the server again on minimum load. wordpress will never be "fine" because it can't produce static content.
Yeah, most of the plugins are not working with WP 2.0 and it's hard to find a list that tells you which plugin will work or not... I think I'm gonna "down"grade back to WP 1.5 too, I don't see any advantage gained with WP 2 If anyone knows any obvious advantage of having WP 2, please let me know!