I just finished upgrading this blog to the latest Wordpress release (2.9.1).
I usually do a little research just to see if anyone has any problems with their upgrades and while I certainly appreciate the automatic upgrade options for the Wordpress core and plugins I tend to be a little too paranoid to click the upgrade button.
I have before for very small plugins but I generally like being a bit more cautious because I have read about the odd person’s tale of woe… loosing a database or getting an internal server error message….etc.
My approach is usually what is reckomended.
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So why did I choose Wordpress?
Well, Wordpress is one of the most used blogging tools out there and since it’s been around for a while it’s also quite polished.
Many bloggers use Wordpress and there are tons of plugins that you can get to provide various functionality.
A few plugins I’ve decided to use:
Contact Form 7 – http://ideasilo.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/contact-form-7/
This plugin provides a contact form that allows people to send a message through the website to an email address.
WP-SpamFree – http://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/plugins/wp-spamfree
This plugin provides some spam filtering for the blog comments.
You can also find many Wordpress plugins and Themes over at http://wordpress.org/extend/
Wordpress also has some great features that may come in handy when writting. In the editor there is a handy spell checker. The spell check is one that I will use quite often, it’s quite handy in finding nasty typos.
Another very handy feature is that Wordpress will automatically save draft copies while writing blog articles so if you happen to shutdown the browser a bit pre-maturely all may not be lost.
It’s also quite easy to change the website’s theme or layout at the click of a button… once you’ve uploaded the theme’s files of course.
So all in all I believe Wordpress is a very solid tool to work with. I’ll post about handy plugins, widgets and anything else that I find helps me in this process.
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