Blogging Software

[BadGolfer]

Hi All,

I'm getting ready to move my blog off of blogger. I have my URL registered and the host server set-up. All that is left is picking a software package. I've read a number of posts here mentioning WordPress, and WordPress seems to come up a lot on other searches I've done. So, my question is, is WordPress the hands down choice? Anyone have other suggestions? Obviously, since I'm a blogger, I'm looking for free or cheep, I prefer Open Source. Oh, in case it matters, I'm a computer programmer by trade (.NET), and would consider myself expert on HTML. So I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty if need be. However, after programming all day, I want to work on my blog, not blogging software, so I'd prefer something that doesn't require a lot of tweaking.

TIA for any advice!

Cheers!

Rob (AKA Bad Golfer)
http://badgolf.blogspot.com

[Blaine Moore]

Hi All,

I'm getting ready to move my blog off of blogger. I have my URL registered and the host server set-up. All that is left is picking a software package. I've read a number of posts here mentioning WordPress, and WordPress seems to come up a lot on other searches I've done. So, my question is, is WordPress the hands down choice? Anyone have other suggestions? Obviously, since I'm a blogger, I'm looking for free or cheep, I prefer Open Source. Oh, in case it matters, I'm a computer programmer by trade (.NET), and would consider myself expert on HTML. So I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty if need be. However, after programming all day, I want to work on my blog, not blogging software, so I'd prefer something that doesn't require a lot of tweaking.

TIA for any advice!

Cheers!

Rob (AKA Bad Golfer)
http://badgolf.blogspot.com
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Rob, I started with b2evolution, and switched over to WordPress after about 6 months. I much prefer WordPress. Drupal seems to be the second choice for what I see being used around. I'm much the same boat; I program all day, I just want to write content at the end of the day for my own stuff.

[BadGolfer]

Hi Blaine,

Thanks for the reply. Funny, because B2e was another one high on my list. After visiting their website I was impressed. Haven't visited Wordpress' website yet, but I'm heavily leaning that way. The only negative I've read about wordpress is that it contains "spaghetti code". I can live with that, as I don't plan on coding in it too much .

Cheers!

Rob (AKA Bad Golfer)

[Blaine Moore]

Hi Blaine,

Thanks for the reply. Funny, because B2e was another one high on my list. After visiting their website I was impressed. Haven't visited Wordpress' website yet, but I'm heavily leaning that way. The only negative I've read about wordpress is that it contains "spaghetti code". I can live with that, as I don't plan on coding in it too much .

Cheers!

Rob (AKA Bad Golfer)
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I never work on the wordpress code base itself; I don't want to have to remember to make a change after an update. The only coding that I do is making minor edits and tweaks to plugins and in my themes, which are as clean as you make them.

Wordpress has treated me much better than b2.

[mrClen]

yes i really believe wordpress is much better than any blogging site available, second on my list is blogspot.com and what i like with blogspot is that they have addons which can be use to block spam comments.