Comments on: Has Blogging and WordPress Become Synonymous

By: PEW Internet: Where is WordPress? by Blogging Pro

PEW Internet: Where is WordPress? by Blogging Pro — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:35:10 +0000

[...] Where is WordPress here? I thought WP was almost synonymous with blogging already? Perhaps it’s bundled in with the 17% “something else” group, and the 38% “don’t know/rather not say” group. At any rate, I think it would also be interesting to know what BloggingPro readers use. Here’s a simple poll I made. [...]

By: Blogging 101 at SaRiSaRi

Blogging 101 at SaRiSaRi — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:46:08 +0000

[...] Setup WordPress as your blogging software – Even Yahoo has one. WordPress has become synonymous with blogging because it’s easy to use. Themes and plugins are readily available and support is abundant. [...]

By: Aaron B. Hockley

Aaron B. Hockley — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:53:21 +0000

I host a couple of my own blogs on WordPress and write for a blog network that uses Movable Type. Just today I (again) asked for a feature on the blog network that is something built-in to WordPress, and (again) I was told it’s just too hard to implement. Sigh.

By: Diane Ensey

Diane Ensey — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:36:45 +0000

After many, many problems with downtime, crashes and lost posts on Typepad, I switched to WordPress, hosting it myself. Now I recommend it for everyone. It is easy to tweak, easy to template and hosting it yourself means you aren’t dependant on the crashes of a public host like Typepad or Blogger.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 23:50:59 +0000

Just as the term “Google it” has become synonymous with searching, the term “Press it” could very well become synonymous with blogging.

By: jhay

jhay — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:29:43 +0000

It’s just because that WordPress has become so popular among bloggers. It is also a challenge to the other blogging software makers to step up and do something about WP’s dominance. The result would be more choices of blogging software for bloggers to choose from.