Because I’ve been getting a little frustrated with the lack of trackback support, prohibition against Javascript, etc. I’ve decided to set up a Wordpress installation on my private machine. For now, I have things set up so that posts made on my Wordpress blog will get mirrored onto my LiveJournal account. I may do some friends-locked posts still on LJ, but my general philosophy is to not post anything I might consider private on a blog, friends-locked or no. So we’ll see how often I make use of that option.
September 14th, 2007 at 7:11 am
Wordpress is pretty cool, I find it more useful than blogger.com
Regards,
Michal
September 16th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Ted, I take it you’re going to run your own copy of WordPress rather than setting up a blog on WordPress.com.
I never tried a copy of WordPress on my site, but my experience with WordPress.com was so dismal I moved all my blogs over to blogger.
As far as I can see the problem isn’t with the WordPress software, it’s with the implementation they use to run WordPress.com.
The final straw was my inability to write a message in another editor and post it in WordPress without all sorts of gawd-awful formatting problems. This is even after I converted it to a text file, strained that through Wordpad, etc.
Good luck and I hope your experience running WordPress yourself is more productive than mine with WordPress.com
–Rick Cook
September 16th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Hi Rick,
I haven’t had any problems to date, but we’ll see how things go. Wordpress is open source, so if there are problems, I’m not afraid to dive into PHP and fixing the problem myself. It’s the ability to customize the blog via adding plugins of my choice, and if necessary, hacking the PHP myself and the submitting the changes back for inclusion in a future version of Wordpress which is highly important to me. I did take a look at blogger.com, and one thing that I dislike about it as a blogging platform is that it doesn’t support trackback pings — which was the reason why I migrated off of LiveJournal.
September 26th, 2007 at 10:12 am
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