I need to put up a blog for a website and since I haven't done so before, I would like your recommendations/suggestions as to what you use. So far I'm checking into Eblog, Wordpress, and the free portion of Expression Engine. What do you use?
CSS-Tricks run on WordPress and I am a big fan of it. Although, I can't speak for any of those others, as my experience is limited. I am awaiting the day I need a more fleshed out CMS so I can try Joomla or Drupal though.
I do like your blog site and I think it works well. In your experience, was it easy to set up and customize the functionality? I noticed you do not approve messages prior to posting. Do you worry about people posting inappropriate topics/content that are malicious or such in nature? Is there a control mechanism to view/approve messages before they are posted? Why did you pick Wordpress? How is the management/back-end? What about errors/problems you have had? I will definitely download and give it a try, but any experiences you would like to share would be greatly appreciated. :D
I have been recently using wordpress too and I like it too. To come to your questions: it is easy to set up and there is a conrol mechanism to view/approve messages before they are posted. But I think if you want much interactivity you should give it free and moderate after if needed, but that's my opinion. I didn't have error's, it's working very wel. And also a good thing of wordpress is that there are a lot of plugins for everything. So that's me about wordpress. I should say: just give it a try :)
The admin interface is pretty nice, and like Edwin said, there are a zillion plugins to extend functionality.
I chose to auto-approve comments... just a personal choice. I get an email for each comment so if something gets published that is nasty I can moderate it right away. I don't get much of that at all though. Askimet handles all the spam and I get very little of that too.
I appreciate your input! I am definitely going to give Wordpress a try. I'm hoping I have PHP support. I've never worked with PHP and MySQL before. I think I'm going to have a learning curve. :idea: The auto-approve module sounds great and I'll give it a try. This way I moderate without stopping the flow of postings. I've never heard of Askimet? :?: Does that come with Wordpress?
:o HELP! I've downloaded WordPress and MySQL (which I'm not familiar with either). I've read the Famous 5-minute install. Opened the wp-config-sample.php and then I got lost :? because I do not have a database setup so that I can input the information. // ** MySQL settings ** // define('DB_NAME', 'putyourdbnamehere'); // The name of the database define('DB_USER', 'usernamehere'); // Your MySQL username define('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourpasswordhere'); // ...and password
I'm used to working with Access database and Coldfusion and I'm really lost getting started. Can you point me in the right direction?
Yes, a screencast would be great. My problem right now is creating a database in MySQL. In MYSQL Command Line Client for version 5.0.51b-community I entered the command CREATE DATABASE blog and also tried CREATE SCHEMA blog but nothing seems to happen. It seems like a simple thing. Any advice as to what I'm doing wrong?
I would prefer a screencast on going from PSD to Wordpress theme... or perhaps just frm CSS/HTML to Wordpress theme. Or both! Although I know there is an existing PSD to HTML screencast!
I chose to auto-approve comments... just a personal choice. I get an email for each comment so if something gets published that is nasty I can moderate it right away. I don't get much of that at all though. Askimet handles all the spam and I get very little of that too.
Askimet doesn't ring a bell by me either, I think it's an anti-spam script inside wordpress?
A little googling says that's that: Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam - Akismet :)
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'putyourdbnamehere'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'usernamehere'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourpasswordhere'); // ...and password
I'm used to working with Access database and Coldfusion and I'm really lost getting started.
Can you point me in the right direction?
it would be great.