a Wordpress question
Apr. 24th, 2012 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmegaeraI do believe Google has hit my particular camel's back with its last straw.
Suffice to say that in less than a month, the perfectly good Blogger interface that works with my browser will be going completely away, rendering my Blogger blog uninhabitable by me.
I have excellent reasons for wanting to switch blog providers rather than screw with my existing software setup (including switching browsers -- which browser to use is my choice to make, not Blogger's), which I won't go into here, even if asked [wry g].
So I am looking to migrate my blog.
People keep talking about Wordpress. However, I notice that there are two versions, one where I have to host the blog myself, and one that works like Blogger. I am not particularly enamored of the idea of hosting the blog myself, because right now the rest of my website is hosted on the space included in my ISP contract, and I have absolutely no clue how to (or if there's enough space to) host my blog software there as well. And that's a learning curve I'd really rather not climb right now.
Is the Blogger-style version of Wordpress okay? Good? Bad? Excellent? Is there a better place to have host my blog that won't pull a Blogger interface switch on me?
Please, remember I read Dummies books on this sort of subject, not technical ones (I have one on hold at the library, but I don't know if it'll get here in time).
Thanks!
ETA: After poking around Wordpress.com's website for an hour or so, I'm not all that impressed. The theme search pages don't load properly (and not at all till after refreshed several times) and the filters to search the themes don't work at all. Is this typical of Wordpress? And if so, why are people so impressed with it?
Suffice to say that in less than a month, the perfectly good Blogger interface that works with my browser will be going completely away, rendering my Blogger blog uninhabitable by me.
I have excellent reasons for wanting to switch blog providers rather than screw with my existing software setup (including switching browsers -- which browser to use is my choice to make, not Blogger's), which I won't go into here, even if asked [wry g].
So I am looking to migrate my blog.
People keep talking about Wordpress. However, I notice that there are two versions, one where I have to host the blog myself, and one that works like Blogger. I am not particularly enamored of the idea of hosting the blog myself, because right now the rest of my website is hosted on the space included in my ISP contract, and I have absolutely no clue how to (or if there's enough space to) host my blog software there as well. And that's a learning curve I'd really rather not climb right now.
Is the Blogger-style version of Wordpress okay? Good? Bad? Excellent? Is there a better place to have host my blog that won't pull a Blogger interface switch on me?
Please, remember I read Dummies books on this sort of subject, not technical ones (I have one on hold at the library, but I don't know if it'll get here in time).
Thanks!
ETA: After poking around Wordpress.com's website for an hour or so, I'm not all that impressed. The theme search pages don't load properly (and not at all till after refreshed several times) and the filters to search the themes don't work at all. Is this typical of Wordpress? And if so, why are people so impressed with it?
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Date: 2012-04-25 08:37 pm (UTC)Good luck on getting a blog set up the way you want it, whichever way you go!
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Date: 2012-04-25 11:13 pm (UTC)