Comments on: Converting To WordPress http://www.brandonsavage.net/converting-to-wordpress/ The personal blog of Brandon Savage. Contains entries of a personal and professional nature focusing on PHP, Apple, LAMP, MySQL and Washington, DC. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:09:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: RaiulBaztepo http://www.brandonsavage.net/converting-to-wordpress/#comment-388 RaiulBaztepo Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:05:14 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=127#comment-388 Hello! Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource! PS: Sorry for my bad english, I'v just started to learn this language ;) See you! Your, Raiul Baztepo Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language ;)
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo

]]> By: John Sullivan http://www.brandonsavage.net/converting-to-wordpress/#comment-15 John Sullivan Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:34:40 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=127#comment-15 Hi Brandon Came across your site from the PHP site, anyway I'm glad people like that jerk Les don't come by my site;) I have been blogging for almost a year and looking to get a grip on PHP Perl,well let me just say PHP for now.Anyway I wanted to just say hello and I have used wordpress for 1 year and it's user friendly both in the front and back.I'm looking to collaborate with someone or even pay to have a site I want to set up for bloggers. I'm going to look around at some older post.If you or any of your buds are interested look me up on my do follow blog and YES not you LES LOL ;) Peace site looks good I got to get back to the less is more set up Thanks Stumbled Hi Brandon
Came across your site from the PHP site, anyway I’m glad people like that jerk Les
don’t come by my site;) I have been blogging for almost a year and looking to get a grip on PHP Perl,well let me just say PHP for now.Anyway I wanted to just say hello and I have used wordpress for 1 year and it’s user friendly both in the front and back.I’m looking to collaborate with someone or even pay to have a site I want to set up for bloggers. I’m going to look around at some older post.If you or any of your buds are interested look me up on my do follow blog and YES not you LES LOL ;) Peace site looks good I got to get back to the less is more set up
Thanks
Stumbled

]]> By: Brandon Savage http://www.brandonsavage.net/converting-to-wordpress/#comment-11 Brandon Savage Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:51:25 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=127#comment-11 Les, I'm disappointed that you had to use personal attacks to make your point. I respect your right to disagree with me, so much that I posted your comment, and there was no need to insult me to boot. I think there are a number of reasons why people don't use Wordpress, and your concerns are valid. In my case, I made a choice to use software that I considered to be "good enough" for what I wanted to accomplish. If we were to evaluate all software on the number of patches issued we would have to invalidate the benefits of such open source platforms as Firefox and Ubuntu Linux, and even such closed-source platforms as Office and Windows. Wordpress has gone to great lengths to make upgrading easy, namely making their Subversion repository readable by the world at large, and I'd dare say it is even easier than upgrading my operating system or an installation of PHP. Thousands of people have chosen to make Wordpress their platform of choice, and hundreds have contributed to the project. That is it's chief benefit: I can contribute all the code I want while benefiting from the collective genius of others. To me, this makes Wordpress not perfect, but a satisfactory work in progress that I can utilize on a daily basis and help make better. If you believe that contributing to open source, helping find bugs in existing packages, and being willing to live with bugs makes myself or others unprofessional, then so be it. But I think that's short-sighted. Les, I’m disappointed that you had to use personal attacks to make your point. I respect your right to disagree with me, so much that I posted your comment, and there was no need to insult me to boot.

I think there are a number of reasons why people don’t use WordPress, and your concerns are valid. In my case, I made a choice to use software that I considered to be “good enough” for what I wanted to accomplish.

If we were to evaluate all software on the number of patches issued we would have to invalidate the benefits of such open source platforms as Firefox and Ubuntu Linux, and even such closed-source platforms as Office and Windows. WordPress has gone to great lengths to make upgrading easy, namely making their Subversion repository readable by the world at large, and I’d dare say it is even easier than upgrading my operating system or an installation of PHP.

Thousands of people have chosen to make WordPress their platform of choice, and hundreds have contributed to the project. That is it’s chief benefit: I can contribute all the code I want while benefiting from the collective genius of others. To me, this makes WordPress not perfect, but a satisfactory work in progress that I can utilize on a daily basis and help make better.

If you believe that contributing to open source, helping find bugs in existing packages, and being willing to live with bugs makes myself or others unprofessional, then so be it. But I think that’s short-sighted.

]]> By: Les http://www.brandonsavage.net/converting-to-wordpress/#comment-9 Les Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:17:32 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=127#comment-9 Quote "... found it to be usable, user-friendly, and easy to get ..." I would consider otherwise but after reading your blog post I assume you are coming from a non technical, non professional background and that being the case, then I can understand why you should think that Wordpress is "user friendly". However it is not; there is so much wrong with the software the disadvantages - the many patches - don't stack up against the advantages - as in free software - but that's my thoughts on the matter. We can't all be a professional now can we? ;) Quote “… found it to be usable, user-friendly, and easy to get …”

I would consider otherwise but after reading your blog post I assume you are coming from a non technical, non professional background and that being the case, then I can understand why you should think that WordPress is “user friendly”.

However it is not; there is so much wrong with the software the disadvantages – the many patches – don’t stack up against the advantages – as in free software – but that’s my thoughts on the matter.

We can’t all be a professional now can we? ;)

]]> By: Brandon Savage http://www.brandonsavage.net/converting-to-wordpress/#comment-6 Brandon Savage Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:54:49 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=127#comment-6 Yes that is an unfortunate consequence of migrating the site. I've not found a way to prevent the syndication. Hopefully it isn't too serious an issue. Yes that is an unfortunate consequence of migrating the site. I’ve not found a way to prevent the syndication. Hopefully it isn’t too serious an issue.

]]> By: Jani Hartikainen http://www.brandonsavage.net/converting-to-wordpress/#comment-5 Jani Hartikainen Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:49:30 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=127#comment-5 Ah, so that's why 10 or so of your old posts re-appeared in your RSS feed =) Ah, so that’s why 10 or so of your old posts re-appeared in your RSS feed =)

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