Switched from Blogger to WordPress

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 plugins modules. However, it is a little over kill for that particular blog.

So as of now, here is how my blogs layout:


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