The reason WordPress is highly recommended
When I decided to blog, I thought it would be simple. But so many factors affected the decision of which blogging software to use. I had wanted to stay with html because I was comfortable with it, already had a website, and thought the static links would be preferred by search engines. True, my main motivation for starting to blog was to have an outlet for writing. But it would be nice if a few people read it. Sharing is part of the creative process.
Finally, I was brought over to the dark side of dynamic urls. The ability to navigate by category, or date, or latest post, and update the interface (in other words, all pages) is a big positive. Here is where WordPress really shined. I had my share of issues with software compatibility. My website is hosted on a Windows server, and there are some commands I cannot do (chmod for instance). There were cautions that the “fancy URLs”, in other words URLs that make sense and don’t have question marks, might not work. Some software had plugins and various procedures. With Wordpress, I clicked a radial button. All worked fine.
It did require that I install it on a site without Front Page extensions. Since WalkingRidge.com has FP extensions, I installed WordPress on WalkingRidge.net.
I have to give high marks to Blogger though. As a beginning blogging tool, it is great. It got me started. However, I did want the pages on my own website, and guess what? It appears the FTP transfer corrupted the url file due to the front page extensions. So even though I had the html files for the blog on my website, there were broken URLs.
Add in the category feature, the ability to create links that make sense, and include the category in them and WordPress seems to do everything you could possibly want in a software program except publish it statically. And maybe that’s not a bad thing.
- the MuseTags: wordpress
