Four years ago, when I first started this blog, I spent a while looking at WordPress (WP) and b2evolution (b2evo). At the time, even though I felt b2evolution was a bit too cumbersome, WP was simply not feature-rich enough – so this blog runs on b2evolution. However I preferred the look of the WP skins, I took a WP skin and sorta forced it into b2evo (which is why some pages don’t look quite right).
In the last few years I’ve grown increasingly dissatisfied with b2evolution. So I decided to take another look at WordPress. And I like what I see. So, I’ve setup a test blog and imported all of my posts/comments/etc.
I’m curious what you all think, though. So check out the test blog and let me know! If/when I switch, I will wipe that one out, re-install and re-import all the data from here – so don’t post anything there that you would like to last.
Moving to Word Press will provide several advantages: easier upgrades, I can switch to a supported skin (I could do this in b2evo as well, but I don’t like most of the skins), and there was a reCAPTCHA plugin as well (there may be one for b2evo now, I haven’t looked since my last upgrade). In addition, the WP developers seem more geared towards smooth upgrades and transitions than the b2evo developers.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion This along with mysqldump are really handy for those of us that prefer things manually
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/ For those who prefer things a bit more automagically
For what it is worth, both have worked in the past for me. WordPress is a great blogging system. If you are expecting many hits, make SURE to use either wp-cache or wp-super-cache.
http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/wp-cache-2/
http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/
The latter is based on the former and generates all pages as static html completely if the user meets a certain set of requirements. Great for keeping server load down when your harmony project gets on digg again
Yes, I’m aware of the many ways to upgrade WP – hence I mentioned it being a much better process than b2e. And yeah, though I didn’t mention it, I’m familiar with the cacheing plugins, but my blog doesn’t get very much traffic, so it’s not really worth it. But thanks. Fortunately all the harmony traffic is now through SourceForge which has been really solid since their beef-up a while back.