At, we want to create a blog you can use, not just read. Where TypePad was still chiefly focused on type, WordPress enabled a raft of multimedia-rich themes, like the ElegantThemes theme we’re using here. (Manila, my first blog service, had this a decade ago, which makes its absence on TypePad all the stranger.)
#Wordpress versus typepad update#
Where TypePad made you hunt and peck to search for an entry when you wanted to update it, WordPress has a super-useful “Edit this” link attached to each post when the author is logged in. Akismet is the most sleek and beautiful plug-in ever devised. Where TypePad’s comments system was a daily ordeal - bogged down by spammers and a kludgy captcha system - WordPress’s community-powered Akismet brought the Neighborhood Watch hammer down on those knuckleheads. Plug-ins (more than 4,200) have sprung up that give blog operators an amazing array of programming choices: add a poll, enable users to get comment notifications by email, show off news briefs, build out your own blog community and thousands of other options. Where TypePad’s users were dependent on the hosting service to roll out new improvements, WordPress opened the door to thousands of useful, inventive plug-ins that would overwhelm any topdown roadmap. Where development had seemingly largely stopped at TypePad until recently, WordPress was regularly rolling out new versions - and version 2.7 is now the muscle car of its class. I now find myself attending WordPress Camps, alongside BarCamps, Social Media Camps and other open media efforts born of my involvement with. Not because of Matt’s coding prowess, but because of the power of crowdsourced development. (We opted for self-hosting rather than the hosted version.) Somewhere between 20, WP became not only comparable to TypePad, but better. In, Matt Mullenweg (pictured above) offered a free, open source platform that thousands of developers were coding for. I was content for a long while, but over the past couple of years a revolution was brewing at WordPress - and finally reached the point where I could no longer ignore its pull. I’ve been blogging since May 2001, first at Dave Winer’s Manila platform and since 2003 on Six Apart’s TypePad. (Micro-answer: It depends on what’s important to you.) During the first few months of 2009, we decided to launch two new ventures - and - on platform. People still ask us all the time which blogging platform they should use.
Both services are versatile, but WP has pulled ahead Matt Mullenweg, CC photo by Robert Scoble
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