Showing posts with label WordPress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WordPress. Show all posts

Sunday, July 6, 2008

WordPress is not The Best Blog Engine

Sorry if you guys think that WordPress is the best blog engine on the world. I don't think so.

In my views, the best blog engine has to have one or more things another blog engines don't have. The facts given to us are not saying that WordPress has something other blog engines don't have.

OK. OK. I know you will say that WordPress have an ability to create static pages that other blog engine like Blogger does not have. Yes, WordPress has it and Blogger does not. But, TypePad has. Mambo and Joomla have too. If I am not mistaken, b2evolution also has that feature.

To that extend, I don't see a feature that WordPress has and other blog engines don't. But, I can show you features that Blogger has by default but WordPress does not have. They are blogsend address and send post by mail.

Blogsend address

With Blogger, we can automatically send my new post to an email address that is set on our blog settings. Every time me publish new posts, that posts will be sent to the email address we have saved. That feature help me in backing up my blog post to another blog that has post by mail feature.

WordPress does not have this blogsend mail facility.

Send post/article by mail

Blogger by default give its users this facility. Every post has an envelope icon that can be enabled or disabled. By default, it is enabled. This envelope icon, if clicked, can be used to send that post to our friends by email. Simply click the envelope and type in email addresses we want to deliver the post.

What about WordPress? Let me tell you that WordPress does not have it by default. You have to install a third party plugin to have that feature on your blog.

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Then, will you say WordPress is the best blog engine on the world after that facts disclosure?

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

WordPress.Com Increase Free Space to 3GB. Will Blogger Follow?

On Januari 21, Matt Mullenweg announced that WordPress.Com has increased the free space capacity from 50MB to 3GB. It was a great happy news for wordpressors. On past days, people have to buy a credit to upgrade their space to 3GB. Rovicky is the one who has bought a credit to upgrade his famous blog storage.

Matt also wrote that Blogger storage was 1GB. As a Blogger user, I wonder if Blogger will follow WordPress.Com and give more storage to its user. Google is much bigger than WordPress.Com. So, I think that Google will take some action in reaction to WordPress.com movement.

As far as I know, there are Blogger users moved to WordPress.Com. They were attracted by WordPress.com's features that more interesting than what Blogger over. One of the most influencing factor is the ease to import all of posts and comments from Blogger to WordPress but not vice versa. Blogger user has no tool to import posts and comments from worpdress's blog.

This war in winning user registration will continue. If Blogger is satisfied with what they offer, I think that WordPress.Com will attract more Blogger's user to move their blog to WordPress.com.