Forbes.com Mentions Wordpress — Full Report
In February, open source blogging application WordPress came out with its release 1.5, and we’ve found that this release puts WordPress squarely ahead of its competition (namely MovableType, which has begun to shift its focus away from consumers and onto enterprises). Although wrangling together a domain name and Web hosting space and then uploading the WordPress software can be intimidating to newcomers, once it’s set up this hosted option is one of your easiest for ongoing use. You can download and tweak visual themes that make your blog look radically different from the plain default Kubrick theme (blue header, white background). There are also plenty of plug-ins, with which you can set your blog up to do things like highlight search text, restrict certain posts to certain users or tie in with outside services like Flickr, Del.icio.us or Technorati. WordPress is gaining in popularity quickly, with more than 200,000 downloads in its first three months. If you like WordPress, but think it’s too complicated, try Blogsome, a hosted version of WordPress.
BEST: Community of users. If you have a question, either check the documentation wiki (to which anyone can contribute) or ask at the support message board. We had an obscure question answered within an hour.
WORST: Poor image management options.
Frankly, if that’s the worst thing anyone can find about Wordpress, we have one fine piece of software on our hands here =)
July 25th, 2005 at 11:19pm
It can do a lot - it can’t do everything.
August 3rd, 2005 at 10:16am
And I’m glad it can’t do everything. If it were able to do everything, it would be this largely bloated application and would start to end up looking like phpNuke or some horrible application like that.
I like Wordpress the way it is and the direction its going in =)
February 4th, 2008 at 3:15am
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