Comments on: Why Did You Choose Self-Hosted Wordpress?

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:36:28 +0000

In my opinion, WordPress is the best blogging platform — bar none.

By: bbgoyal

bbgoyal — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:28:12 +0000

for the last some time, i am thinking to start my blog. but i have apprehensions in my mind as to whether wordpress is the best? though my mind heavily weighs for it.

By: Rob Lewis

Rob Lewis — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:34:23 +0000

I decided on self-hosted Wordpress because of the control it gave me – luckily, I came from a more technical background, having coded websites and written PHP for a while, so I enjoyed playing with it and working out what it can do.

There are also many plugins written for it, which makes adding new functionality a breeze (with the newest version plugin upgrades have become really simple).

Before Wordpress I had dabbled with Textpattern, but didn’t find it as intuitive or as extensible. It’s been Wordpress all the way since.

By: God I'm Hungry.

God I'm Hungry. — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:38:09 +0000

I didn’t. Wordpress is entirely to strict, blogger doesnt give a Crap. I will do blogger until i get more design skills. Great blog though. If i had your skills i would be on wordpress. I always seem to break tos some how. Well i guess thats why i read your blog, to get better.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:19:30 +0000

Thanks, Pinyo. I didn’t think it could be that easy-

Lisa

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:53:53 +0000

I went with wordpress because I was looking to expand my blogging efforts, for more flexibility than blogger offered, and then I found a hosting deal that made up my mind for me.

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Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:45:03 +0000

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By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:46:16 +0000

Since you already burn your feed through feedburner, it’s an easy task. When you are ready to make the switch, just go to feedburner, and select “Edit Feed Details…”

Change the “Original Feed” information from Blogspot to Wordpress feed.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:28:29 +0000

I am currently on blogger, but working on a wordpress set-up. It’s all installed, and I am now formatting it, and learning the software. I’m looking forward to making the switch. If you guys wanted to do a post on making the actual switch that would be helpful. I’ve downloaded my files easily enough. How do I switch over when the time comes, without losing my current subscribers?

Thanks,
Lisa

By: plonkee

plonkee — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:42:29 +0000

Of course it’s not all about wordpress, there are other tools for managing your blog, but self-hosted is definitely the way to go. It’s much easier and cheaper than people on free blog hosts think.

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:10:53 +0000

You really did your homework on this one, nice collection of quotes! I don’t use WordPress, but I agree that a self-hosted solution is a must for any serious blog, especially if that blog is related at all to technology and the internet.