Is there anything close to WordPress?
by jim on July 1st, 2008 
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Forgive me if this post will sound very naive. It was just now that I noticed that WordPress is in use by the biggest online names in the planet CNN, Yahoo, Sony, The New York Times, People, Ebay, b5Media … just to name a few. It is quite an achievement. While I’m not trying to belabor the obvious, I’d like to flip the coin a bit to ask… “is there anything close to WordPress at this point in time?” There was a very old poll made by a company which lists the top 13 blogging platforms to date. Here’s that list in order of popularity:
- WordPress.org
- Blogger.com
- Moveable type
- ExpressionEngine
- Typepad
- WordPress.com
- Drupal
- Custom made
- Text Pattern
- Live Journal
- Mambo/Joomla
- Nucleus
- B2Evolution
- Other platforms
I’d like to stress that this list isn’t current, but it’s the most “believable” list I found while searching for a blogging platform poll thru Google. I think it’s time to run a poll right now don’t you think? I’ll see if we can do something of that goal right here. Blogger.com seem to be the closest runner-up to WordPress. I wouldn’t be surprised. Much of the blogging community seem to trust “turn-key” solutions to their blogging needs. Blogger.com and WordPress.org/.com have found a dear niche. Like fast-food, they knew what menu would click the most. Easy setup is the key. Anything less to that is just second best. Are you wanting to find out what the best blogging platform for you is? I’d suggest that you hit www.wordpress.com and www.blogger.com . For now.
Before building my personal website on Wordpress I looked for any non-PHP alternative; I hate PHP’s guts. Yet, I must admit Wordpress is far better than any other platform; even hating the language, I ended up develooping a couple of plugins.
Bye,
DAvide
Eons ago – in net-years – there was a nifty little thing called GreyMatter. Anyone else remember it? It was what I used for my blogs after I “graduated” from Blogger. I then progressed to MT, and finally arrived at Wordpress.
Webaware – these guys seem to have done some polls on various categories.
2008 winners: http://www.webware.com/html/ww/100/2008/winners.html
thank you wery much
I swear by Squarespace (http://www.squarespace.com). I run my personal, portfolio site on Squarespace, but had to use Wordpress for the podcast I do with some friends (http://www.theDollarBin.net) mainly because of the plugin Podpress.
‘bloggingpro’ misspells expressionengine. what a hoot. maybe you can install a plugin to fix it?
Yes on WordPress! Incredible software that is always evolving and improving. Especially because of how dedicated it’s huge network of open source support is. Versus proprietary software, you seem to get a much more rapid innovation and fix track/ timeline.
Granted, leveraging an environment like open source requires some care & management for a business. I’m sure CNN, Yahoo, Sony, The New York Times, People & Ebay know it all too well, but yes on WordPress!