On Wordpress

i’ve been messing around with wordpress the last couple of days, on and off. It’s quite interesting, it’s a completely different blogging paradigm to what i’m used to, and i must admit i’m a bit unsure of whether or not i’ll use it.

I’m one of the few folk who LIKES the MT-rebuild. I like the idea of all my content being static pages. To me, content addition and comment addition happen a lot LESS than a page is viewed. So why have unnecessary load on the system/database? I know i know, quite often the database is local to the webserver so it’s not a traffic thing, and i *am* a bit of a hypocrite by utilising a lot of PHP which makes up for the lack of database calls. But i can’t help it. Every time content is pulled from a database, memory is allocated to a new process, depending on how well the page is written, this might happen many times within a single page (some pages have n many queries took n many seconds)

When i first read about MT i was so impressed, i mean what a great idea. Apart from rebuilding and things to do with rebuilding - which slow it all down a tad yeh? -, we can have a completely dynamic-content site.. that’s served off static-pages! Wundaful. I am aware of their downfall of course. As everyone is. Commenting, trackbacking, pinging, adding, making site-wide-template-changes (eek) can take a damn-long time. But sometimes that’s a small price to pay.

I guess we will have to see what happens.

Personally, the sole reason that i’d leave MT for something like wordpress (quickly off-topic, i tried b2evo briefly but it gave me a bit of trouble) is because with MT 3.0+, some of the features will not be available in the free version. If the free-version were just as capable as the full-version then obviously i’d stay with it, but i hate the feeling that new development-features might take their time getting to the crippled free version. WordPress (WP) has already openly taken the open-source route, which means all new features and additions are almost immediately available to everyone and anyone, combine this with the fact that it looks (feels) like a lot of people are jumping ship from MT -> WP which will in-turn lead to more users, more features, more support and an ironing out of their already slim number of bugs.

People don’t pay to see this website.

The web-browser they (and i) are using is most likely free.

It just seems weird to have to pay for something to publish webpages, which can cost just as much as hosting the website itself (for a year).

I mean all it is is a glorified text parser.

Posted by Christian 23 May 2004

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