Ive gone from Wordpress back to BlogCFC. Woohoo!
Around last May 2009 I moved my blog away from CF to Wordpress (PHP), the main reason was for the bloggin tools i.e. iPhone app etc, plus the skinning was easy as dropping a folder on your server. Well over the holiday break I've moved back to BlogCFC. Theres are a few reasons which I thought were worth putting a blog post together:
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I was never happy with Wordpress. Thats not to say its not a great blogging software/platform but I had a few issues with
plugins and skins which meant either digging into rights management or even editing PHP(UCK!). The reason for moving to
Wordpress after-all was because I didn't want to think about maintaining my blogs code.
Yes the iphone app was good to have but I didn't use it as much as I thought I would and it wasn't as good as I imagined it being, so this ended up being a mute point anyway. - Next I thought why even host my own blog and I looked around at the likes of Posterous which I know of some CF devs have moved over too. It seemed a neat blogging tool again, email your posts in etc, but then I didn't like handy over all of my data to a third party plus what if they vanished over night or simply the data got corrupted.
Comments
Welcome back. :)
"mute point" = Moot Point. :)
Andy, thanks for posting this. Sometimes I hear the grass is greener and I contemplate switching. While there's a lot I'd like to see in BlogCFC that isn't there right now, it's still a nice platform that has served me well. Thanks again for posting your thoughts.
@Aaron part off an agreement with myself on coming back to BlogCFC is when I want something changed, do it, blog it and log it over on RiaForge for Ray & Team. There's no reason BlogCFC (or any CF blog) shouldn't have the features other blog software has.
Wordpress is *really* terribly made.
If you ever find yourself forced into using non-CF software, pick something else. Anything else.
If you ever find yourself forced into using non-CF software, pick something else. Anything else.
