WordPress first impressions

Date November 13, 2007

Here’s what I think of WordPress after the first 24hrs. This is coming from someone who is not all that developy-minded, but has migrated from Blogger to Movable Type to WordPress.

  • Easy install. Literally five minutes, including setting up a MySQL database. Can’t top that.
  • Great community of themes and plugins. I think I’ve only scratched the surface so far
  • Best price – Free!
  • Dashboard is very easy to use, including configuring plugins, switching themes, importing 500+ old posts and comments.
  • Compared to Movable Type, everything is just that little bit more user-friendly. MT has a lot of power, but you need to know what you’re doing, which I didn’t really. WP has a very basic learning curve, particularly when moving from other platforms.

I’m sure I’ll keep going on about the move, but that’s what I’ve noticed at this early stage. Now I need to start looking at uninstall MT and moving WP to the top level of the server.

Category Posted in Online

  • Hi Molly,
    Thanks! I agree about adding content, going to have to work on that... :)
  • Congrats on the move. As one who moved from Typepad (their hosted service) to Wordpress (me hosting my own) I found the flexibility a blessing and a curse. Its great to have so much choice, but I found it an easy trap just changing things all the time and not adding any content.
    Molly
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