WordPress Thoughts

Earlier this week I announced that I would be moving ChrisElrod.com over to WordPress.  Since then many folks have asked me about WordPress vs. TypePad...I will try to answer a little about that in this post.

First off...I'm not unhappy with TypePad...I just found it limited in design and simplicity for the price.  In order to do major changes to TypePad basic designs you have to be a master at HTML...I am not.  Also I never had much success using Ecto or email posting.  Posting from my Blackberry never worked...even after receiving help from tech support.  I also found that any of the real cool blog features were an extra cost on TypePad.

WordPress is free and their templates are much more user-friendly (not to mention better looking).  I found posting to WordPress...using multiple formats...has been incredibly easy.  Even a bonehead like me can make things look pretty good and professional.

There are few drawbacks to Wordpress...none of which bother me much.  The first is that nothing can be put on the blog that remotely looks like commerce.  This means no posting those cute little Amazon wishlists or stores.  Also no plugins...which did bother me a little.  I do not allow comments on my blog...but I was intending to put up one of those banner things on my posts with thumbs up and thumbs down.  No plug-ins means no blog post ratings.

I hope this answers some questions I've been getting via email this week.  By the way...I will stop posting to this account over the weekend.  My domain now feeds into my WordPress account...but my RSS feed has changed.  Click here to subscribe.

PLEASE NOTE:  ChrisElrod.com has made the move to WordPress. For the RSS feed and subscriptions, please click here.  To see the new blog, please go here.