Comments on: WordPress Growth Rocks

By: leeaase

leeaase — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:35:01 +0000

Monica: Please note that there is an opportunity for you to serve as a visiting professor and write the Blogging 106 post on Blogger pros & cons. I just haven’t found time to do it myself; there’s a limit to how much I want to explore a platform I’m not going to use. I looked at it enough to know it wasn’t going to have what I needed.

And you really should avoid making completely unsubstantiated charges about blogger payola. I receive nothing from WordPress.com except fantastic service at a ridiculously low price, which is exactly what is available to every other user.

If you want to be the visiting professor for Blogging 106, I’d be delighted to have your contribution. You could just e-mail the text to me and I’ll post it for you and give you the credit. Or if you want to write it on your Blogger-based blog, I’ll be happy to link to it.

By: Monica St. James

Monica St. James — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:28:09 +0000

What? No mention of Blogger?

Personally I’ve found WordPress counter-intuitive, as if it was designed by computer geeks, for computer geeks. They need to do some focus group testing! Blogger provided a shorter learning curve and more natural composition.

But they’re probably not paying you off to write about them like WordPress is.

By: Jim Streed, APR

Jim Streed, APR — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:21:22 +0000

Lee:
I have started a private blog on WordPress and am finding some interesting quirks there versus a public blog. Still, I think WordPress is a very robust platform for blogging.

By: Ben Martin, CAE

Ben Martin, CAE — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:55:08 +0000

If Ben Martin says it, then it must be true.

Thanks for the link, Lee.

By: leeaase

leeaase — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:11:23 +0000

Yes…good points. CSS is $15, Domain mapping $10, and 5 GB upgrade $20. I was just making the point that if you throw that all together you have just about any blog functionality you need (although WordPress.com does have some limits on the kinds of video players you can use) and you’d still be spending less than the minimum package for Typepad.

Thanks for the comment and clarification.

By: wpvstp

wpvstp — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:43:39 +0000

Just for the record, the CSS Upgrade alone costs only $15/yr, not $45. On a second note, TypePad’s themes are a lot more customizable than WordPress’ themes, even without CSS. That said, the overall functionality of WordPress far outstrips TypePad, and the cost of WordPress is indeed a fraction of the cost of TypePad. If only WordPress would allow me to opt out of them running Google Ads on my blog…