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.
I use WordPress.org and also BlogSmith, but you left that one out.
How about “Other”? I code my own.
I’ve used a number of blog platforms over the years, and I like WordPress the best. I still use LiveJournal as a “social” blog, but it’s just for personal things and keeping in touch with personal friends. My “official” blogs are using WordPress. I love the flexibility, the widgets, and the ease of use!
I agree on WordPress as being the most intuitive blogging platform.
Choose the best platform and customize it to your specific needs. That is what Open Source is all about.
Though I like WordPress.org, my preferred platform is Movable Type as it allows me to manage several blogs from a single interface and gives me more control over the final output.
Textpattern, (its really light and flexible once you get used to it), and Expression Engine (very powerful, but probably overkill for a straightforward blog)
I use both Blogger and WordPress and both are great platforms. I like the advance post feature in WordPress and the dashboard is easy to use. I hate having to know code to change the layout of my WordPress blog and I really hate having to know the inner works of having a hosted blog.
The new changes with Blogger make it easier to use then in the past years and I have keep several blogs there. Blogger continues add features and is becoming easier to use. If Google continues to improve Blogger look for it to become the standard in blogging platforms.
I have found wordpress to be the easiest to configure, plus alot of other people are using it, so lots of plugins and support information available, since I have tend to break things.
Still no BlogCFC? Pretty weak!
http://www.blogcfc.com/
Drupal or die!
I’m new to this, but wordpress.com is awesome thus far.
Thanks, Jason M. Blumer
WordPress for life son.
I use Blogger, although I have experimented with others (WordPress.org, WordPress.com, Moveable Type, etc.).
As far as I can tell, if you want to host your blog on your own server, then WordPress.org is the way to go.
But if you want another company to host it for free/cheap, Blogger kicks everyone’s but (including WordPress.com), especially with the custom domain feature (and 100% free control of the layout).
~Darnell
I use wordpress as i think most people do cause have many useful plugins to install, to upgrade, really good for seo, easy navigation, many options, east templates to edit.
I use WordPress and Moveable Type. I downloaded Drupal once and read the documentation. I’ve even helped some friends move from Blogger to other platforms.
I voted MT especially if you look at their new version 4.0. (I’ve been using it since 2.0).
Probably a little more work on the front end – and you’ll need to host your own (or choose one of their hosted programs) – but by far the most versatile for me…
TypePad!
WordPress.org is overkill for most people, although wonderful also.
Great post!
I like WordPress, Habari, Textpattern, and Expression Engine. Throw in Drupal and Joomla and you can take over the world!
The truth is that there are many excellent platforms. If I had to pick just one: WordPress all the way!
This poll is totally biased toward LAMP blog engines. There are a lot of very good .NET based blogging engine as well.
Just to name a few:
– Subtext
– BlogEngine.NET
– Community Server
– Graffiti
you should check them out and not just think that bloggers only use PHP coded stuff.
Anyway, I use Subtext
Blogger.
1) They can handle all of the bandwidth I need — for free. As the #8 (non-Google) blog on Blogger, that is important to me.
2) Tech support. (No, seriously.) If my blog goes down at 3:30 a.m., some person in Mountain View is under the hood with a wrench while I sleep.
3) I am pretty sure the company will be around in five years.
Some people may see it as a blogger’s sandbox, but for those three reasons (and a few others) I doubt that I will ever leave.
David Hobby
http://www.strobist.blogspot.com
I’m with what looks like the majority here – wordpress.org. Apart from the platform itself, I also like the open-source philosophy behind it. I find there are a few quirky bugs in it, but have so far been able to work around them OK, and I guess they’re being addressed in current and forthcoming releases (I’m still on 2.1)
WordPress like most of the bloggers. WordPress cause its easy to install. Easy to use. Many themes available. Tonz of add-ons. Easy to modify it if you know how to.
I could try Joomla though if i had some time.
PHP — I wrote my blog software myself in PHP.
I use WordPress exclusively nowadays, but when I started my first blog in 2002 I used PHPNuke. PHPNuke was great and I would still be using it if I was still running that particular blog.
It has to be WordPress for me.
There are platforms with more features than WordPress, Joomla for example, but WordPress is by far and away the easiest to alter and change and has a very easy learning curve.
The PHP code is so beautifully laid out and that matters to programmer like me.
For my blogging endeavours I use WordPress, having orignally tried out blogger to see how it worked.
While blogger can be fine for those initial few months while you figure out what/who/why and where, once you commit to blogging on a more permanant basis, switching over to WordPress (or a.n.other professional grade package) you won’t/don’t look back.
I use a WordPress blog, integrated on the same URL as my portfolio site.
As a newbie I just jumped in with Movable Type, not really knowing too much. Now I see most use WordPress.
I use wordpress, but there are many things that this platforms still misses.
I use wordpress right now – but I may start using a custom content mangement system when I finish programming it – mostly to show people what it can do.
I am using WordPress.org and it’s so wonderful. It’s slighly to run, easy to adjust, a lot of themes and plugin, so powerful.
I like WordPress.org and will never change it.
I didnt know that livejournal is so high in alexa
I use WordPress for most of my bloging needs, but I also use Typo and more recently Mephisto as nothing beats a bit of hacking in Rails instead of boring ol’ PHP!
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JP
Interweb Millionaire
Simple, Blogger.
I started off with WordPress.com, but found it too restrictive for my liking (No theme modifications allowed, unless you pay). So I bit the bullet, bought some hosting and set up WordPress.org on my own domain. No regrets so far – it’s a wonderful platform :)
I am using WordPress. mainly because I don’t really have a clue as to what I am doing yet and WordPress seems to be the most popular.
KB Hill
My first site (now blog) is using phpnuke, it was 6 years ago, and im afraid to migrate.
All my other blogs are with wordpress (upgrade from b2, my db tables are still b2_)
WordPress is the best for me
I use blogger.com…
I just started editing blog…
One day I went to blogger.com happenly, saw it’s asking to creat blog, I just felt interesting, and kinda curious at the same time, wanted to see what blog is, and how to do it…
Since the day of registration, I have been updating my blog daily, it’s somehow my dairy now…
Currently I’m working as a language translator of Chinese (native), English, and Arabic, so I’m writing my blog in these 3 languages, to practise my languages, and to get more people view my blog as well…
Have a good day
Linda
November 28th, 2007
I voted for wordpress.com, then checked out my blogs and apparently I’m using wordpress.org. Didn’t know there were two and don’t know what the differences are.
WordPress is so easy to customise and I’ve never wanted to do anything that wasn’t possible – tons of documentation and support available. Now I’m using it for non-blog websites; I checked out loads of Content Management Systems but none were as easy to learn, amend and update as WordPress.
I’m on blogspot but a lot of people have told me to leave and go somewhere else. John Chow himself recently put up a post that went along the lines of leaving blogspot. Would you recommend that even if I am just blogging for fun?
Started with Blogger, but I wanted more control over my blog and moved to WordPress and never looked back.
But after my WP blog was hacked (because of a faulty plugin), I started to question WP’s over all security and searched for alternatives.
I did a test install of Serendipity. Even though installing Serendipity was much easier compared to WP, it does not even come close to the hundreds of templates and plugins available for WP.
Therefore for the time being I will stick to WP and its great community. Also it seems that the latest release (2.3) of WP is more secure than WP 2.2.
You could add Vox!
It’s a great bloging site
Those of you that have tried MT in the past and for some reason decided to give a try to wordpress or something else, have a look at movable type 4 on the absolutely free movable type v4.x demo Web site at: http://www.movabletype4.org/
I started out with Blosxom for a couple years, tried Movable Type, now everything is done in self-hosted WordPress.org.
I am using wordpress.
blogspot can’t be visited from China :(
Hi
I use Bloggers blogspot but I wish I had started my blog in a hosted WordPress.org website. The thing is when I opened my blog 6 months ago I didn’t think I’ll be earning money to cover the hosting cost. but thank God, my November earning itself could have covered the hosting cost. My advice to anyone starting a new blog is to go with a hosted website running on wordpress.
Out of the free blog services blogspot is the best. It give a lot of freedom to the blogger and you can redesign it so that it’s barely recognizable as a blogspot blog. But I wish it had the facilities like in free wordpress.com blogs to comment and track stats.
Started with Blogger, tried WP, but decided to go for Typepad, because WP’s user interface was simply to confusing for me. Besides, I found out I could do more with Typepad. Besides Typepad feels more professional.
I use my own system – Majestic. It’s a very new system, but I think it has what it takes to become a serious competitor in the not too distant future. :)
Somehow, Some weakness of WP is some very strength from WP ! :)