Written on November 25th, 2007 at 02:11 pm by Darren Rowse
What Blog Platforms Do You Use? – [POLL]
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.
104 Responses to “What Blog Platforms Do You Use? – [POLL]” - Add Yours
Iantrepreneur
November 25th, 2007 2:41 pm
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!!
tekxzen
November 25th, 2007 2:48 pm
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.
Eli
November 25th, 2007 3:04 pm
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
~Dawn
November 25th, 2007 3:14 pm
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.
chetan
November 25th, 2007 3:19 pm
Wordpress is the best for me :)
Was on blogger previously but wordpress changed my mind!
Chris
November 25th, 2007 3:20 pm
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
Shawn Farner
November 25th, 2007 3:20 pm
Wordpress, hands down! Easy to use, easy to expand.. just plain easy.
Arkenor
November 25th, 2007 3:23 pm
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.
Arkenor
November 25th, 2007 3:24 pm
Er, miniting = limiting
Eric Atkins
November 25th, 2007 3:30 pm
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.
Victor
November 25th, 2007 3:30 pm
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)
Tay - Super Blogging
November 25th, 2007 3:31 pm
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.
Tler
November 25th, 2007 3:32 pm
We use wordpress 2.0 and are planning an upgrade to 2.3
Lowell
November 25th, 2007 3:35 pm
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..
Levois
November 25th, 2007 3:42 pm
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.
jerry
November 25th, 2007 3:45 pm
Wordpress has pretty much covered everything that I need, so I have been a dedicated fanboi to it since the beginning.
Baby Please
November 25th, 2007 3:47 pm
Typepad works just fine for me.
Keith
November 25th, 2007 3:49 pm
Wordpress.org all the way. It gives me total control over every aspect, and is built for blogging from the ground up.
Jeremy
November 25th, 2007 3:51 pm
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?
faizal
November 25th, 2007 4:01 pm
Love google product, so I use blogger :-)
pelf
November 25th, 2007 4:02 pm
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.
Sly from Slyvisions.com
November 25th, 2007 4:26 pm
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
urbanmike
November 25th, 2007 4:48 pm
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.
Hafiz
November 25th, 2007 4:51 pm
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
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Hafiz
November 25th, 2007 4:56 pm
Weird so many comments but only 3 votes? Don’t forget to vote people! :p
Brad V.
November 25th, 2007 4:56 pm
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!
Kelvin Kao
November 25th, 2007 4:57 pm
I suspect that some people will be confused about Wordpress.com and .org…
Anurag
November 25th, 2007 4:58 pm
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
Isaak Kwok
November 25th, 2007 5:10 pm
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.
Gyutae Park
November 25th, 2007 5:28 pm
Wordpress.org all the way for me.
Derek Wong
November 25th, 2007 5:44 pm
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?
Derek Wong
November 25th, 2007 5:46 pm
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!
mmj
November 25th, 2007 6:55 pm
Wordpress.org seems to have the most support. I tried to joomla, but was not impressed with the control.
30 Day Man
November 25th, 2007 7:38 pm
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
Jay Thompson
November 25th, 2007 7:52 pm
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…
Harrold
November 25th, 2007 8:31 pm
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
localhost
November 25th, 2007 8:36 pm
Not listed in the poll, but I’m using Pivot (pivotlog.net) for over a year now and I’m very pleased with it.
Steve Creek
November 25th, 2007 9:07 pm
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.
PureWordPress
November 25th, 2007 9:16 pm
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
Adam
November 25th, 2007 9:22 pm
Word press is the best one. I tried blogger in the begining but it has a limited use. Can not compare both.
MegaStrong.net
November 25th, 2007 9:28 pm
I choose Wordpress, because it’s very easy to use.
Colin King
November 25th, 2007 10:04 pm
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.
Grace
November 25th, 2007 10:58 pm
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.
Lane Lester
November 25th, 2007 11:14 pm
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.
Sangesh
November 25th, 2007 11:59 pm
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.
WebHostinGuide
November 26th, 2007 12:26 am
Simple blogger.Com
DefogMyBlog
November 26th, 2007 12:56 am
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.
DefogMyBlog
November 26th, 2007 12:58 am
Dear Moderator,
Please delete out that last comment. Changed my name by accident.
Niamh
Niamh
November 26th, 2007 1:00 am
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.
acca
November 26th, 2007 1:53 am
I use WP org for serious blogs and have few blogs I don’t update regulary on Blogger.
Chris Jacobson
November 26th, 2007 2:52 am
I use WordPress.org and also BlogSmith, but you left that one out.
Anthony Lawrence
November 26th, 2007 4:59 am
How about “Other”? I code my own.
Caitlin
November 26th, 2007 5:02 am
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!
salvation army thrift store
November 26th, 2007 5:17 am
I agree on Wordpress as being the most intuitive blogging platform.
donate car nyc
November 26th, 2007 5:21 am
Choose the best platform and customize it to your specific needs. That is what Open Source is all about.
Jeroen Sangers
November 26th, 2007 6:31 am
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.
Leigh
November 26th, 2007 8:07 am
Textpattern, (its really light and flexible once you get used to it), and Expression Engine (very powerful, but probably overkill for a straightforward blog)
Ben
November 26th, 2007 8:54 am
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.
youfoundjake
November 26th, 2007 8:55 am
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.
Greg Nilsen
November 26th, 2007 9:00 am
Still no BlogCFC? Pretty weak!
http://www.blogcfc.com/
Quinton Figueroa
November 26th, 2007 9:17 am
Drupal or die!
Thriveal
November 26th, 2007 10:06 am
I’m new to this, but wordpress.com is awesome thus far.
Thanks, Jason M. Blumer
Jake
November 26th, 2007 10:18 am
WordPress for life son.
Darnell Clayton
November 26th, 2007 10:34 am
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
lucas131
November 26th, 2007 11:15 am
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.
Jim Walczak
November 26th, 2007 11:39 am
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…
Ted Demopoulos, Blogging for Business
November 26th, 2007 11:40 am
TypePad!
WordPress.org is overkill for most people, although wonderful also.
Jeff_
November 26th, 2007 12:17 pm
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!
Simone
November 26th, 2007 5:10 pm
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
David Hobby
November 26th, 2007 5:42 pm
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
Fiona
November 26th, 2007 5:59 pm
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)
thoughtless
November 26th, 2007 7:18 pm
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.
Anthony Williams
November 26th, 2007 7:29 pm
PHP — I wrote my blog software myself in PHP.
The Adsense Idiot
November 26th, 2007 7:46 pm
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.
Robert
November 26th, 2007 11:51 pm
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.
Dave
November 26th, 2007 11:54 pm
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.
Serge
November 27th, 2007 12:10 am
I use a Wordpress blog, integrated on the same URL as my portfolio site.
Max Powers
November 27th, 2007 4:14 am
As a newbie I just jumped in with Movable Type, not really knowing too much. Now I see most use WordPress.
Networking Blog
November 27th, 2007 7:24 am
I use wordpress, but there are many things that this platforms still misses.
Jeremy Steele
November 27th, 2007 12:08 pm
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.
Phamen
November 27th, 2007 5:12 pm
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.
Chloe
November 27th, 2007 8:56 pm
Wordpress of course
Reverse Funnel System Review
November 27th, 2007 11:13 pm
I didnt know that livejournal is so high in alexa
Interweb Millionaire
November 27th, 2007 11:34 pm
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!
–
JP
Interweb Millionaire
Dado
November 28th, 2007 1:47 am
Simple, Blogger.
Phil Wiffen
November 28th, 2007 1:55 am
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 :)
KB Hill
November 28th, 2007 9:42 am
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
rod
November 28th, 2007 10:38 am
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_)
66tx
November 28th, 2007 2:13 pm
Wordpress is the best for me
Linda Zhao
November 28th, 2007 8:58 pm
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
Kathy
November 28th, 2007 9:01 pm
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.
Gerri
November 29th, 2007 7:23 am
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?
Ferdinand
November 29th, 2007 8:36 am
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.
David Davis
November 30th, 2007 4:34 am
You could add Vox!
It’s a great bloging site
Mihai Bocsaru
November 30th, 2007 5:47 am
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/
Michael Clark
December 2nd, 2007 4:17 pm
I started out with Blosxom for a couple years, tried Movable Type, now everything is done in self-hosted Wordpress.org.
home-blogger
December 7th, 2007 3:07 pm
I am using wordpress.
blogspot can’t be visited from China :(
Planet Apex
December 11th, 2007 12:24 pm
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.
Jan Husdal
December 16th, 2007 6:15 am
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.
Ben Barden
December 23rd, 2007 4:56 pm
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. :)
aw
December 27th, 2007 2:57 pm
Somehow, Some weakness of WP is some very strength from WP ! :)
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