Why did YOU choose WordPress?

1. Open Source/Free Software
2. PHP, not Perl
3. Standards compliance
4. Not too heavy (as are full-blown CMSes) -> hackability

I wanted to add a bulletin board to my website so my visitors could make comments, etc. So, I tried some autoinstall scripts offered by my host – phpBB, pMachine, bMachine, b2evolution – I tried the autoinstall for WordPress and LOVED it. The community has been great to help with questions and problems.

I have tried all the rest, now I’m with the best ?? heeheee….

I junked the “traditional” website and haven’t gone back. I really owe a huge thanks to my hosting company and to Matt and all the developers! I may not have ever known about WP if my hosting company hadn’t offered it as an autoinstall script. At the time, I didn’t even know what a “blog” was.

Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

I have tried every blog software or website I could find. Everything from Blogger, Xanga, MyOwnJournal, MT, TXP, ect. If it had blog/journal in their keywords, I tried it.

Until the other day I was really trying to decide between using WP, TXP or Geeklog. Well, then I checked out the forums here and thta is how I made my decision.

Although WP has many of the features of why I wanted something similar (php/mysql based rather than perl) can use on my own site (unlike blogger) the main reason why I choose WP is because of the support.

People are very helpful here and you can always find the answers to your questions. Although I was a lottle skeptical at first coming to the forums as I wasnt used to not having shown the who was online or how many people were online, I have come to realize that this forum is very much active, more so than I thought.

Now, I am just hoping that the Dev team doesnt get bored with WP as I had that happen with my YabbSE forums and the Dev team there moved onto another project.

And yeah.. WP was soooo easy to install.. even though I honestly thought it was going to take forever, by the info posted during installation.. but I think that is what the Dev team wanted us to think. Surprised I had to barely do a thing and it was all installed ??

I’m a php and programming dummy, so

a) 5 min install. I never managed to get MT to run on my own domain.
b) i need to write one template for approximatively 4 in MT
c) after the famous MovableType goes paid, it was either going limited features or stick with v2, ie, no improvement on the program that i can access.

??

I looked at a few CMS systems, but when I analysed what I wanted/needed realised that all I needed was a flexible blog.

I had some trouble getting started, found these amazing forums and Podz came to my rescue.

After being busy with work, the New Year has given me more time and I’m back up and running.

In a nutshell – it’s the userfriendliness of the software and the users ??