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It has been just over a year now since my last post.  If you have visited my blog before, you’ll noticed that I have switched it from MachBlog to Wordpress.

What seems to be a sudden change has been, actually, a long period of testing and contemplation of different blogging solutions.  Being mainly a CFer, I seriously considered several ColdFusion based blogging apps, as well as a JAVA based solution, Blojsom.  While they are very good I was convinced that the right solution for what I needed was Wordpress.  Why?

Even though my CF-Angel tells me not to go with a PHP based blogging engine, the truth of the matter is that I just need a solution that works well, adapts to changes in technology and blogging trends (ie Social media/micro-blogging) and is easy to manage. Wordpress is very well known and used, stable with tons (literally) of plugins and templates right off the bat.  I really don’t want to modify the code under the hood to get what I want and this seems to have everything I need want so far:

• Easy plugin install (over 4,000 of them and I can search & install them right from the admin)
• Easy theme switcher (thousands of them free)
• Easy import from RSS feeds (I had to write code to import the comments though)
• Permalink support (pretty URLs)
• Multiple RSS formats
• Twitter plugin (better than many of the plugins I’ve seen from other blog engines)
• Facebook plugin (various plugins & features)
• SEO plugin (powerful) (continue reading…)
  

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