Comments on: WordPress

By: lth

lth — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:30:44 +0000

Good value? I pay £20 per year for my webhosting, and that’s inc mysql, 500mb webspace and 6gb bandwidth per month. http://www.web-mania.co.uk You don’t even need to pay instantly – they’ll happily invoice you and let you start using it while they send the bill to you.

By: McDuff

McDuff — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 09:56:40 +0000

I’ve just got my wordpress blog up and running, and have got to say that it really could have been a lot harder. I don’t have any real experience with html outside of rudimentary tinkering, but I’ve set it up to do more or less what I want it to do with a real minimum of fuss. I’m just looking for a few more hacks that will do, say, footnotes more easily than hard-coding the anchors in a post, and I’ll be all set.

By: mara

mara — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 09:15:40 +0000

But… if you host with Textdrive, not only do you have the leading open source CMS pre-installed, you also have the option of donating a portion of your monthly fee to support the open source software of your choice. Now that’s classy. (Plus their support team is awesome.)

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 06:59:15 +0000

I’m currently installing WordPress to run my blog too, and it’s a hell of a lot easier than I thought it would be! As well as Dreamhost, Lycos now offer installation of WordPress as a free option on paid accounts as well.

By: Yusuf Smith

Yusuf Smith — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:51:21 +0000

Jeremy: No it doesn’t. I’ve just checked the homepage. It only supports MySQL.

By: jeremy hunsinger

jeremy hunsinger — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:24:07 +0000

i think you’ll find that wordpress supports postgres just fine. As for multiple blogs, that’s when you use drupal.

By: Yusuf Smith

Yusuf Smith — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 19:57:24 +0000

I considered WordPress when looking for a replacement for Blosxom, but it requires MySQL and will accept nothing else, while MT will let you use the Berkeley DB, PostgreSQL or SQLite as well. MT also lets you manage multiple blogs, unlike WP. I wouldn’t mind being able to use an open-source blogging app that was more featureful than Blosxom, but for a lot of people MT is the only thing that works.