Comments on: Alternative Blog Platform (or maybe a little social suicide)

By: Ethan

Ethan — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:29:43 +0000

I recently decided move a way from Wordpress into another blogging platform. The one that I chose was Symphony, it has a bunch of sweet features, and the administration area is great. http://21degrees.com.au/products/symphony/

By: Alberto

Alberto — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:39:52 +0000

I agree with Andreas that Drupal is very good. It’s a PHP based CMS with many interesting functions, add-ons and plugins. A good alternative is Joomla!, a bit easier for the final site developer. If you want to stand on a blog-management-system you could try with blogger, publishing on your own site (and not on blogspot.com).

By: Ainslie

Ainslie — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:04:06 +0000

I’ll give sNews a try, thanks Andreas. Love your new site design.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:10:39 +0000

Then you’ll love sNews. Really. http://www.solucija.com/ - and you’re halfway there. It takes two minutes to add the template tags into any template - and the CMS itself is just a single PHP file. It includes a blog, an archive, a contact form, content pages and… Well, you’ll see. I love it, even though I am currently not using it for any of my own sites.

By: Ainslie

Ainslie — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:52:01 +0000

Hey Andreas! I’m amongst old friends with you and Sean

I’ve used Drupal but it was a little over the top for what I needed and I haven’t looked at sNews but maybe I should take look.

I would like a blog tool that fits around any template rather than having to alter things to fit around the blog tool.

Thingamablog works like that as you open a loop and define what XHTML you want in between. What I want is a server based TAMB

By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:35:26 +0000

If you want a challenge and learn something useful at the same time, try Drupal. sNews is also a highlight if you haven’t tried it already, an excellent choice for many kinds of sites - but not much of a challenge. I’m sticking with WordPress, but that is mostly because I want to spend my time on making plain templates and running websites for now, not learning a new system from scratch.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:24:56 +0000

Yes, go poke more of the WordPress community

Since you’ve been away from your blog, there has been a lot of underground development with WordPress, plugins and functions.

The only plugin I have out in the wild for download is my clean archives plugin, which you can find on my project page.

I have others that I’d share with you, so we should do a Skype conversation soon and catch up on things.

By: Ainslie

Ainslie — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:17:58 +0000

“Giving up on WordPress?”

No not really but it offers little challenge. I’m also fond of change! And I though I might try poking a stick at the WordPress community to see if I got a reaction

Also, and more importantly, it would be nice if it would fit around the template rather that the template having to fit around it. If you see what I mean.

It looks like I missed your plugins and functions. Is this public work?

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:05:23 +0000

Giving up on WordPress?

There is so much that can be done with it, especially in customizing it and making it look and work unlike any other WordPress powered site.

I’ve been working on a lot of customizations with plugins and functions.

If you have some ideas, I can help you get them to be a reality.