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DTrumbower
Why did you switch?
Was it rather easy?
I would also like to know of people that switched from Geeklog to Wordpress, but probably don't have many of those people viewing the forum.
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1000ideen
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I tried quite a lot of CMS and also Wordpress. I even tried WP with a lot of plugins and made it work with multiple deployment - wow! You don`t find that trick anywhere 8)
WP is nice, when you need some very, very special plugins which make reading or presentation of postings easier like one that was called "Related Entries". It displayed some 5 postings in the "What's Related" area of a story.
I say it displayED because I can`t find the plugin anymore on the internet and that is the biggest problem. You need 5-10 plugins to make WP run in a similar way like Geeklog and that means you have to keep them updated etc.
I just found "related posts", a similar plugin: http://erwin.terong.com/2005/09/24/wp-plugin-related-posts-link/
What really turned me off was that there is no way to disable the auto correction. E.g. you can`t write "xyz .htaccess" and there is no easy way to hack that. I tried hard even with the German WP forum but we could not turn it off completely. The result is:
One nice plugin was this: http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=10&showtopic=71960 or the cache or podcast plugin. Some 'plugins' are just being produced in geeklog this summer like "subscribe to comments".
All in all WP is good if you don`t want to design your own theme because there are many nice ones (which is non sense if you work professionally because you will have an own corporate identity), if you fall in love with very special plugins (and don`t mind praying that they are being continued), if you prefer an easy installation process (and don`t mind installing 5-10 plugins additionally).
DTrumbower
n4th4n
Lee
I switched my personal blog over to Wordpress one year ago, and managed to port all of my old GL stories and users over without much problem. I had to re-invent all the little plugins and hacks I used to do things like create a random image, display rss feeds, provide a contact form. I still miss GL occasionally, but WP Akismet spam filtering is a god-send, and theming is so simple. I still use GL for a couple sites that require more group controls including the intranet portal for the company I work for which is massively customized with lots of custom static page code as well as lots of stock plugins (gallery, filemgmt, ewiki,forums, etc.), but upgrading GL is much more of a pain (IMO) than WP. I simply couldn't replace what I'm doing with GL in Wordpress there, at least not easily and without a lot of time wasted re-writing code, and I don't need to worry about upgrading it since it's only accessible on the LAN.
I agree with you. GL it is not easy to install any plugin and themes. wordpress is easy to do even I don't know about any html code, I still know how to do it.
but I like GL too if they made a easy way to add any plugin and themes.
1000ideen
You didn`t mean changing / creating a theme? That is definitely easier in GL as it only requires HTML and CSS. WP requires more skills and very complex CSS.
Some WP-plugins require changes to the theme and I found this pretty difficult to do. Finally I managed but I didn`t understand what I had done.
@n4th4n: "WP Akismet spam filtering is a god-send", did you try the plugin badbehavior? It stops bot right in the access process.
ronack
One thing that I found though is the folks who write their plugins on a Linux box sometimes don't consider those one a windows box and maybe don't test it. However I'm just as bad going the other way. I write on a windows box and don't test on the Linux box.
I haven't had a spam issue since I upgraded to GL 1.4.1 and installed the Captcha plugin.
Lee
sorry for my writing, it is not good enough.
jmucchiello
n4th4n
kreative
Then I switched to WordPress.
After 6 months I returned back to Geeklog.
Do you want a BLOG with nice themes? Use WordPress.
Do you want a REAL CMS ? Use GEEKLOG, it's THE BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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