Why did YOU choose WordPress?

I ran into Matt Mullenweg at a tupperware party in Pouce Coupe, BC. He told me about this cool thing he was working on. I didn’t have a clue about what he was talking about, but I let him talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk about it. I just had to download it and see for myself what it was all about.

It was so easy to install, even a moose could do it. So I did. Been hanging out here ever since.

NuclearMoose, it seems a lot of you here are from BC. I dwell in Vancouver suburbia so hello to my fellow British Columbians. ??

After setup apache/MySQL last week, I was learning how to use Perl. My friend suggested me to look PHP also, then I downloaded PHP and setup a MediaWiki yesterday night.
I think blog maybe is better since Wiki is too big. By googling “blog + MySQL + PHP + Apache”, I found WordPress. I like the style of www.ads-software.com, nice and clean. so WordPress is my final choose.

1. Dynamic Pages – no stupid rebuild, posting into the future

2. Template system (since the 1.3 alphas)

3. Good community

4. very active development

5. free & OpenSource

I tried many systems before and installed several different systems for friends and some clients. Used to do a lot of MT stuff …

1. PHP, MySQL (dynamic pages)
2. despite 1. it’s fast (static pages possible if someone writes a working staticize-replacement)
3. open source, well supported, good community
4. nice templating system
5. open, so I can add nearly any feature I want (see 1., 3.)

I thought it meant Wonderfull Program… and after that mistake I saw no reason to search further.

There is a great community here. There are lots of people who help around. It’s open source too and the development is quite fast I think. I like the admin pages, they’re well organized (in 1.5)

Never used MT, couldnt be bothered with what seemed awfully complicated. Use Pivot for a couple of years. Had a hissy and deleted the blog and a week or two later was about to reinstall Pivot but thought I would just have a look about at what was available. WordPress looked decent, I didnt expect to do more than test it out for a week before returning to Pivot, but..I’m still here. And making themes. (it was much more complicated in Pivot, though I did it there too)

I had an account at Livejournal for a while, got bored of it fairly quickly. I still liked the idea of a blog and also felt the urge to redesign the look and functionality of my site. I did a search (keywords forgotten) that led me to find WordPress, and I decided to give it a try. I was satisfied with my criteria of “free” being met, and got hooked by the ultimate customize-ability. Just like many others who have posted above me, I have enjoyed the vast amount of information that has been found within this forum and community!

1. PHP, MySQL (dynamic pages)
2. despite 1. it’s fast (static pages possible if someone writes a working staticize-replacement

With 1.5 you have the ability to create “static” pages without need for a hack or plugin.

> With 1.5 you have the ability to create “static” pages

Unfortunately, too late for me, but it doesn’t matter.

WP: like Joan, I wanted the software to run on *my* server so that it could be controlled by *me*. Heard great things about WordPress, tried it, installed it. End of story. ??

having tried about 5 other blog”thingies”, I came across something where the support discussion was realistic, guiding and very enthousiastic. Add to that a claimed under 5 minutes installation (which in reality was 2 minutes 38 seconds, yeah, for real!), WP had my attention… from there on: no looking back!!!

I have used Greymatter and Movable Type before, now I switched a new web host that has cPanel with Fantastico. WordPress is one of the blog systems available for easy installation (a few clicks), and it seemed like the best one. MT worked fine, too, but it is not open source and they have started with licence thingies.

I have used a number of tools in the past to include Blogger, Greymatter, and MT. All served their purpose but with Greymatter and MT, the constant rebuilding of pages everytime I had to make one tiny little adjustment was becoming tiresome. I then switched to pMachine. Liked it a lot but development was slow to non-existent (at the time at least). A good friend got me into trying WP and I have been with it ever since. Customizing is a breeze and it was easy to learn. Gotta love it!

First I tried Nucleus (being a Belgian and a bit of a chauvenist), but found out that most blogs I liked were using MT or WP. I spent days wandering around several forums ans decided on WP. Never regretted it since.