I've recently been contemplating the idea of switching The Jedi Blogger over to a Wordpress system. While Blogger is great, Wordpress has some great advantages, including seperate pages to post on and more customization options. So, recently, I've been messing around a little with the site. First off, I must say that it's a little bit of a let down coming off of the ultimately user-friendly Google Blogger. Maybe that's my opinion because I've been using blogger for more than three years now, but maybe it's just because Blogger is better. I could use Blogger blindfolded. Literally.
The biggest problem I have with Wordpress is it is the bizarre assortment of widgets. Unlike Blogger, which has a simple set of widgets like "Picture" and "HTML," Wordpress has things like Atkismo and Sonific. What are those things? And to find out what they are, you have to insert them into the template and save it. If you don't like it, you have to take it back out, which is a pain using their system. I haven't actually found a way to put in links, pictures of HTML banners, all of which would be essential to me for putting my site there.
The only good thing I can see to moving my site to a Wordpress engine is the pages. And it sort or hurts. I'll most likely be leaving my website here on Blogger, where I can never have individual pages. Not like they need to; Blogger is for blogging, which doesn't require pages. But what I've been doing recently with the Jedi Blogger is more like a Star Wars news site. I think it would be great to have a more web site-ish feel to it instead of a blog feel, if that makes any sense. I'll be toying around with it for a little while, and I'll announce any changes before I make them.
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