Why did YOU choose WordPress?

I use Pivot AND WordPress,
Wordpress for a project in my school, and Pivot for an another project in my school.
(www.petercoen.be/wordpress/)

I like them both, both WordPress is uszed by 200 students and teachers, without a problem, soa€|

I started with Blosxom but you had to create a text file, FTP it to the site for it to show up. Stumbled upon WP and loved the fact that I could blog from anywhere.

It’s also forcing me to learn about PHP and CSS which isn’t a bad thing.

My choice of WordPress (after using MT briefly) came down to this:

1. Fast (PHP and MySQL)
2. Easy to use (MT can be very confusing)
3. Able to customize easily (it’s all PHP…even though I don’t know that at all, it is a hell of a lot easier then learning Perl).

can anyone summarise what are the differences between WP and MT ?

or what WP can offer stuff that MT can’t ?

thinking of migrating to WP……………

It works.

@ariqe

I recently switched from MT3.x to WP1.3 (1300 entries, about 600 comments):

WP better …

* no more rebuilds
* post into the future – without strange dynamic templates – everything is dynamic by default
* better anti-spam plugins
* themes (or easier import/editing of new layouts)
* free
* pure php

MT better …

* overall template management (but not export into themes)
* nicer admin interface
* nicer image uploading, resizing and popups

Simply put: all of the above!. More importantly, though, I think the best feature of WP is right here, the support forum, and all the good folks who answer questions, pose solutions, and (in general) do it all with a sense of good humor.

I was using b2 for a year and WordPress was the next logical step

I am a very curious person by nature, always trying new things. I started out on Blogger back in 2001, then heard about GreyMatter and started using it. It put such a load on my local-yokel ISP’s servers that they (politely) asked me to remove it. I then found a real web host and continued with GM for awhile, then jumped on the MT bandwagon due to its popularity. A few months before the MT licensing debacle, I read about WP or ran across a WP blog and investigated it. Along the way I had tried out pMachine, Geeklog, Drupal, Bloxsom and a few others. Nothing held my interest; I always returned to MT. Not so with WP. It won my heart immediately. Why?

First of all, my blog went from occupying about 70MB of server space to 35MB of server space. Tired of fiddling with the dizzy array of MT templates for this, that and the other thing, it was refreshing to be required only to deal with one template. You are always, of course, free to create any number of templates. But to get WP to run right out of the box, you need only deal with index.php. Lordy, what a refreshing change!

And the WP community, like the MTers, are a bright bunch, eager to share their tips, tricks and ideas. Plus, it’s open source, which means that it was free yesterday, it’s free today and it will be free tomorrow. Also, the fact that it had been based on a rather solid blog tool, B2, didn’t hurt it either.

Finally, I love to skin sites. I’d rather create new designs than new entries. It’s much easier to create a skinned WP site than it is to do so with any other kind of blog.

Nuff said. Long live WP!

I chose it because it was open source and there was what appeared to be lots of developer enthusiasm with plugins, hacks, mods, etc. I came to WordPress from Manila–via a very quick route through TypePad, as MovableType seems to be the de-facto esperanto of blog exports (not that everything from Manila was captured in the MovableType stuff, no, not by a long shot).

‘Cause MT wouldn’t install on my latest host (Windows machine and the admins didn’t want to add some of the needed Perl bits). I’d been thinking about it for a while, anyways. Very, very, very glad I changed. The backend of WP has ten times the functionality of MT!

Started blogging with Frontpage (how can that be possible?). Then wanted to have something more… convenient. Looked here and there, found WP and since everyone was using MT I chose WP. Built a site for someone else as a starter, then transfered my whole blog on it. Then I discovered the community… That’s about it. The tool (WP) is fantastic, the community beautifull. Thanks to all of you…
JP

I started blogging with MT and really never liked it. (rebuilding pages just sucks – and I could never remember the cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi blahblahblah url to login). I then went to LiveJournal and while I enjoyed blogging there, I got to the point where it began to feel oppressive. A friend introduced me to WP – stating it was very easy to use and learn – and I tried it out. What really impressed me was the support here – everyone’s so friendly and helpful, I was always able to find an answer even the stupidest question just by searching through older posts or checking out the Wiki.

have been using it ever since.

I started off on Blogger, then moved over to Typepad… I didn’t like the recent changes to MT, which happened to coincide with my urge to break out and do my own thing blog wise.

I’m pretty much a noob hack, but the community support and freshness of WP really appealed to me. Also, a certain amount of being the first on my “blog block” to try something different played into my decision to pick WP.
I have to say, so far I’m really happy I did.

I have used probably almost every blogging platform and have found WordPress to be the easiest to use. ??