Switched from Blogger to Wordpress
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12:38:20 pm on June 30, 2006 | # |
This week at my blog, Disneyfrontier.com, I switched from the Blogger software to Wordpress (read why blogger sucks here). As I posted earlier, I have been playing with Drupal on this blog. I decided to go with Wordpress on Disney Frontier for a few reasons:
- Wordpress 2.0.3 has an awesome utility to import from Blogger into Wordpress. This is part of the default install and easily pulled the posts and the comments over.
- Drupal seems to be running slow on this site. I think this may be GoDaddy’s fault but Disney Frontier is also hosted on GoDaddy. I have contemplated finding a new host but haven’t made any decisions yet.
- I wanted to further investigate Wordpress. The last time I used it was version 1.5 and I didn’t do the install or the configuration for that blog.
What I found was that install was a snap. It was easier than Drupal only by the fact that it handled the database setup for me…after I created the database. With Drupal, I had to do a manual import of the SQL to create the tables. Not hard at all for Drupal but not as convenient. I also found there are a bazillion more themes for Wordpress than there are for Drupal.
Drupal does seem to be more flexible and have a ton more potential in terms of
pluginsmodules. However, it is a little over kill for that particular blog.So as of now, here is how my blogs layout:
- http://www.thekenzers.com - Blogger hosted at GoDaddy
- http://www.thekenzers.com/joshkenzer - Drupal hosted at GoDaddy
- http://www.disneyfrontier.com/ - Wordpress 2.0.3 hosted at GoDaddy
- http://twelvehorses.typepad.com/ - Hosted Typepad
- http://blog.thna.net - Wordpress 2.0.3 Private Corporate Blog
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