WordPress Beats the Pants off of Xoops
I had been using Xoops for my blog, but I’m now experimenting with this new version, using WordPress. So far, it seems much easier to use than Xoops. (Just making the word much italicized would have been a huge ordeal in Xoops).
Anyways, I’m still puttering with the WordPress setup and getting used to it. I’ll post something more detailed later.
I was partly inspired to switch by Jakob Nielsen’s excellent article on Weblog Usability. In re-fashioning this blog, I tried to do right by as many of his top 10 list as possible. I think I’m ok on all but #7 and #8.
The old site is still here:
http://philsteinmeyer.com/modules/news/oldindex.php
October 22nd, 2005 at 9:49 pm
Yeah, my blog is on WordPress…and oddly enough it looks just like this one
I really like WordPress’ editing tools (though it’s kind of annoying that in order to include an image I have to FTP into my site and upload the image separately, but that’s the only thing).
I really need to figure out WordPress’ version of skinning, so I can at least make my blog green instead of blue…
October 25th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
Phil — Be proactive and install Spam Karma immediately, if you haven’t already. I installed Spam Karma on Zen and it works with about 98.5% accuracy in getting rid of spam comments.
November 14th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
I’d like to second Damion’s suggestion that you look into installing the Spam Karma plugin for Wordpress.
It’s an amazing little piece of work that gets rid of nearly all the comment spam you’re going to eventually get once the spam bots come across another fresh Wordpress site like yours.
You can find a number of other useful plugins, such as the post spell checker.