Wordpress Intimate Experience :)

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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 11:05

Wordpress Is Wonderful Well I just started to install several Wordpress sites for a new client and I like it. Wordpress is like a Joomla offspring. It is less complex, but is built in similar way. It is search engine friendly. You have to install a special plugin called All-in-one-seo-pack and it is amazing. You can alter everything. You can put no-follow tags, de-index categories, set the title tags, you can even decide if the site name will appear in the Page Titles. I can not do that in Joomla from the admin section, It requires a special hack. It is spidered without incoming links. So you do not have to get high PR incoming links to index your Wordpress site. And that is a big big plus. It is kind of sucked into the search engines. It uses Ping services and alerts other sites for each new article. This is wonderful option. It has the biggest collection of free themes that I have seen till now. Joomla is basically lacking themes, so you have to buy them from special sites and those themes are cluttered with code and SEO unfriendly. Not Wordpress. I checked few of the latest themes and they are all W3C complaint, table less, with minimum code. This is amazing. You can easily alter your theme if you know html and a bit of php. Themes are little different from Joomla and Drupal, and they are divided into parts like left, footer, right, center and I hate this. I want to have the core theme code in one file, not divided in 5 files. But still it is not so hard to customize a theme that is already compliant and table less. I hate tables!!!!! Another thing is that Wordpress seems not to suffer with speed. I have checked few sites built in Wordpress and they all run fast. Joomla and Drupal are slower if you ask me. That is a big big plus for WP. Another thing is you can add forums as plugins, (drupal has that, Joomla also, but in Joomla upgrading the forum requires more work, database hacks) And there is a huge community, like in Joomla. But the WP is still not a winner. It is a clear winner for a simple site, I can not deny that. And in many cases you do not need more than a simple site. Joomla 1.5 is coming out soon, so WP watch out. I will convert my Geeklog to Worpress but I have to do it manually. There is a special tool for migrating to WP but it is too complex and you have to hack it for the images . If you compare Geeklog to Wordpress, the Wordress is a winner definitely. I mean upgrading Geeklog is a nightmare. Can you imagine the difference between dentist with a foot drill and a dentist with latest Waterlase technology?  That is how I feel when comparing Geeklog and Wordpress upgrades. Any bad things I can say about WP? Not for now. Comments Add New Search RSS Write comment Name: Email:  do not notifynotify Website: Title: UBBCode:         -color-aquablackbluefuchsiagraygreenlimemaroonnavyolivepurpleredsilvertealwhiteyellow -size-tinysmallmediumlargehuge   Please input the anti-spam code that you can read in the image. Powered by !JoomlaComment 4.0 beta2