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Loading ...I’ve been wanting to do this for sometime now, and just now got the will & time to move from my old blogspot blog.
I don’t like Blogger anymore. They do not respond at all to support questions, and the automatic method of transferring my blog to a purchased domain failed miserably, even though I bought the domain through Blogger itself!
I contemplated between WordPress and dasBlog as my blogging platform. dasBlog is written in ASP.Net / C#, which is inherently better (and more familiar to me) than PHP, in which WordPress is written. However, I already installed and customized a WordPress installation, and I found on Google 220M references to wordpress vs only 790K references to dasBlog. A rich user base is often reason enough to choose a product over a similar competitor, and since it works rather well and has tons of plugins I’ve decided to stick with it – I don’t think I’ll be spending huge amounts of times debugging and customizing my blog anyway (besides stealing Eli‘s simple anti-SPAM challenge).
Eli:
Good luck !
As long as you don’t have to customize it, WordPress is really great. Customizing it means digging in PHP code which makes you want to retch 🙂
But customization is rarely needed, as you can have anything done with plugins.
BTW, I really like your comment preview plugin. Which one is it ?
1/10/08, 18:02ripper234:
It took me a while to figure which of the plugins does this :), but it turns out it’s Live Comment Preview (I thought it’s ajax-edit-comments at first).
1/10/08, 19:49Eli:
Cool, thanks. I see you also use the Gravatar plugin. What else ?
1/10/08, 22:33ripper234:
The list of plugins currently enabled on my blog are:
* All in One SEO Pack
* Alter Feed Links
* Clean Archives Reloaded
* Google Analyticator
* Google XML Sitemaps
* Lighter Menus
* Live Comment Preview
* Post-Plugin Library
* Redirection
* Similar Posts
* Simple Tags
* Subscribe To Comments
* WordPress Automatic Upgrade
* WordPress Database Backup
* WP-OpenID
* WP-Syntax
* WP Ajax Edit Comments
* WP Super Cache
I’m not sure all of them currently work 100% correctly (I tried WP Ajax Edit Comments and it didn’t work for some reason). I installed my wordpress on my own machine at first, and it worked, but for some reason it stopped working when I uploaded the blog to GoDaddy. Also, I have currently disabled Super Cache, it may only be relevant to very high load blogs and I don’t think my qualifies 🙂
1/10/08, 23:21Moti Karmona:
Good Luck with the new Blog platform (excellent choice 😉
By the way, I also recommend the following Plugins: Akismet, FeedBurner FeedSmith, Maintenance Mode and One Click PlugIn Update.
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