It’s time for another regular Reader Poll.
This week I’m not running it in my sidebar – because I’m allowing you to add options to it and last time I asked this question in a poll we ended up with 30 or so options and my sidebar was WAY to long by the end of it.
So the question is:
‘What Blog Platform Do You Use Most?’
Are you a WordPress (.com or .org) fan, MovableType, Drupal, Blogger.com, TypePad or do you prefer one of the other many varieties of ways of getting a blog online.
If you run multiple blogs on multiple platforms – just choose the one you use most. If you have two that you use equally – pick your favorite. If your platform is not in the list – feel free to add it. (update: due to one user abusing the ability to add options I’ve disabled this. If your platform isn’t in the list – feel free to leave a comment below indicating which one you use and I’ll include it in the results. To the person who decided to take it upon themselves to have some ‘fun’…. nice IP address – looks rather familiar.
Without any more explanation – here’s the poll:
One more thing – for those of you interested in the results from last time I ran this poll (January 2006) here they are.
wordpress is the best by far – I mean before I use to use joomla and drupal and they were very hard to control and use – I decided to use an article directory script – I mean it works just the same way – categories recent entries scroll on the side, etc
until I found wordpress!! then blogging was real!!
My site may feel a little different from the rest of the bloggers in here, but I am proud to say that I use Joomla. It can be transformed to anything you want.
Only WordPress(.org) for me. Not really interested in trying anything else at the moment, seeing as though I’m happy & settled in with WordPress :D
I was on blogger and though it saved me a ton of money, it limited me – I have moved to wordpress and now have seen the error of my ways ;)
Glad I made the move and got my own domain and host, well worth it so far.
WordPress is the best for me :)
Was on blogger previously but wordpress changed my mind!
Since moving to wordpress about a year and a half ago I never looked back…before that Blogger just crushed me…suppose I never had a shot at utilizing Blogger 2.0, but I doubt it would change my opinion much
WordPress, hands down! Easy to use, easy to expand.. just plain easy.
WordPress here.
It does feel a bit miniting compared with some other systems I see folks using. I might have to investigte them one day.
Er, miniting = limiting
Drupal really isn’t a blog platform although blogging is one of its features. Drupal is more of a framework for building robust web apps (MTV, Sony, IBM, etc.).
When I want to build a website that’s only a blog, I run WordPress. If I think I will want to turn my website into a web app, then I roll with Drupal.
The poll does not work correctly, i tried to vote for ExpressionEngine twice and it doesn’t count it. (and no i did not vote before)
WordPress.org is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. It is easy to use and not at all limiting. I will never, ever change. It lets me do whatever I want to my blog with no restrictions.
We use wordpress 2.0 and are planning an upgrade to 2.3
I’m another convert from Joomla to WordPress – Joomla has some great features but unless you’re running a major bsiness, WordPress covers all the bases that I need..
I use Blogger and WordPress most frequently. I have also used WordPress.com (or actually toyed with it) and I have also used LiveJournal as well.
WordPress has pretty much covered everything that I need, so I have been a dedicated fanboi to it since the beginning.
Typepad works just fine for me.
WordPress.org all the way. It gives me total control over every aspect, and is built for blogging from the ground up.
I currently use blogger, but am not extremely happy with it. Over Christmas break I may finally make the move to WordPress. What is the difference in .com and .org version?
Love google product, so I use blogger :-)
I started blogging on Blogger, which was OK, considering I didn’t know about blogging back then.
Then I saw the “category” feature on WordPress blogs but I didn’t know anything about self-hosting a blog, so I applied for a free WordPress.com blog. And I was hooked.
Five months later, I’ve learned enough to host a blog myself, so right now, I host my WordPress-powered blog myself :)
And, says who the internet is bad, huh?! LOL.
This is a really nice poll, especially for the fact that I have just recently moved to WordPress (.org) a couple days ago. Before moving to WordPress, I used to use RapidWeaver, a Mac website application similar to iLife’s iWeb.
So far, I am loving what WordPress is providing me. I’ve tried over 3 different blogging platforms and this one is the best one I’ve ever tried (and will stay on). Anyway, that’s my vote!
Sly from Slyvisions.com
I run two Drupal sites and really enjoy working in them. Having worked in WordPress as well as various incantations of blogger over the years, I’d have to say that WordPress is the easiest, however, Drupal gives the most flexibility within one program.
I started with blogger when I was just beginning to blog. Back then I would just blog about my daily life and just trying to get use to this blogging phenomenon. After that I foolishly tried to make money out of my pathetic blog. Geez as if I would earn any money by just talking about my personal life!
So I moved on to try Drupal and Joomla. Garghh irritating framework to work with. There are so many features that I got confused just trying to make a post! Even trying to make a template for these 2 platform was a struggle for me. 1 month I tried to work with these 2 platform but with no success. Thats when I know that it would be best for me to find an alternatives.. WordPress.
WordPress is such an easy platform to work with. It took me 3 days just to learn how to make a working template from WPDesigner.com.. In fact I’ve just released a new design for my site. There are limitations for wordpress but it is the best platform if you wish to make a simple website or weblog.
I do want to make a complex website soon but I’ve yet to find any good platform. Thinking of trying drupal again but there are no good tutorials available. Any suggestions?
Hafiz
Vizard Music – Discover New Singer and Musician
Weird so many comments but only 3 votes? Don’t forget to vote people! :p
Like many bloggers, I started off using Blogger. I started and killed many blogs using that platform.
Shortly after I started my current blog, I decided that Blogger didn’t offer me the flexibility I needed. So I did a little research and eventually settled with Typepad. They are a good platform, however, I wish they had better add-ons and widgets.
Overall, I’m very happy with Typepad!
I suspect that some people will be confused about WordPress.com and .org…
I prefer Blogger just because of the ease and the flexibility. I mean wordpress.com doesn’t allow me to do anything except adding simple blog posts. I can’t add any widget (Most of), I can’t customize and all other 100 constraints. Very less good themes. For everything else, you buy credits.
I mean, no kidding, but if you don’t provide flexibility to the users then don’t provide the service for free at all.
I am not a HTML geek and not ready to purchase the domain yet, so everyone like me are left out with Blogger. At least I can do whatever I like to do with my blog, add scripts, code and any other media widget directly into my blog. I don’t need to run for help every now and then.
I think I will be with Blogger till the time I don’t see better features elsewhere.
-Anurag Bansal
http://anuragbansal.blogspot.com
I’ve been using WordPress (self-installed) for all my blogs to date. However, I do have plans to move some of my blogs to ExpressionEngine as I need some of the features that EE has that WP doesn’t.
WordPress.org all the way for me.
I like how there are 27 responses (as of me starting this comment) and I am only the third response in the poll. What’s going on with that?
Uhh….nevermind ignore the above comment because for some reason now when I click the “view results” it shows a more reasonable number. Don’t think that I’m an idiot because of my previous comment. Find that out some other way!
WordPress.org seems to have the most support. I tried to joomla, but was not impressed with the control.
Blogger for me.
I tried WordPress as the addons seemed attractive, but the interface is so cluttered and hard to follow.
Kept coming back to blogger. Once you have the template laid out, its so simply to churn out posts quickly and easily.
Adam
http://www.aimsgraz.org
It’s a shame you can’t let people add their own choices without some a**hole coming along and acting like they are 12 years old…
I use Nucleus and although rewriting url’s isn’t easy once you have a lot of posts already in it, it is pretty good.
I also have a smaller wordpress blog, but I like the text editing and image placing in Nucleus better. Although for template ajustments it’s not recommended for html/php noobs.
Also some plugins are only available with japanese how-to’s which can be a challenge :D
Not listed in the poll, but I’m using Pivot (pivotlog.net) for over a year now and I’m very pleased with it.
I started out with Blogger and I liked it, but was hearing a lot about wordpress.org. I finally decided to test it out and have not looked back. You can do so much more with wordpress.
Another vote for WordPress from me. I’ve tried a few other blog platforms and they simply don’t wow me nearly as much as WordPress does.
Steve
Word press is the best one. I tried blogger in the begining but it has a limited use. Can not compare both.
I choose WordPress, because it’s very easy to use.
I started with wordpress.com to suss out blogging after a couple of weeks I went self-hosted and find it a lot better as I can choose what plugins etc. that I want on the blog.
WordPress.org! I love how it says “This blog is powered by WordPress”. Who doesn’t love the word power? :-)
It is also very easy to use and the possibilities are almost endless.
In addition to several “pure” blogs, I’ve converted some regular sites to WordPress.org after studying the Static Blogging course (my link). It provides the best features of both.
I don’t think anyother platforms can serve as well as wordpress.
Nevertheless, I use wordpress and I don’t think I will be switching to any other platforms too.
I am a happy WordPress user.
Simple blogger.Com
I expect we favour which ever one with started with and got on with. I use Typepad and because it is hosted it is very easy top start with. The support is very good.
It i possible to ask them to shift a blog to host it in the UK which I did because i was advised that was important for Google searches and ranking.
Dear Moderator,
Please delete out that last comment. Changed my name by accident.
Niamh
I expect we favour which ever one with started with and got on with. I use Typepad and because it is hosted it is very easy top start with. The support is very good.
It is possible to ask them to shift a blog to host it in the UK which I did because I was advised that was important for Google searches and ranking.
I use WP org for serious blogs and have few blogs I don’t update regulary on Blogger.