Alternative Blog Platform (or maybe a little social suicide)
I’ve been thinking! Actually, for quite a while about using a different blog platform.
WordPress is great, does all the right things, people love it so much and you can’t go wrong, right? But it’s boring! And it becomes more commercial (seeming). And it becomes more main stream (ish) and the high and mighty (spammer turned saint) attitudes of some of the WordPress community bug me! So maybe it’s time for a change?
Ok, I suppose that’s a jumble of words that could ignite a few sparks but am I on my own here? What do you think?
And do you know of a more worthy blogging platform?
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July 13th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
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.
July 13th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
“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?
July 13th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
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.
July 13th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
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.
July 13th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
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
July 14th, 2007 at 1:10 am
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.
July 14th, 2007 at 9:04 am
I’ll give sNews a try, thanks Andreas. Love your new site design.
July 15th, 2007 at 10:39 am
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).
July 24th, 2007 at 1:29 am
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/