I’ve found WordPress to be simple enough for blogging, but easily expandable. Now, I’m not a rabid WordPress fan - I don’t believe in warping it into something it was never meant to be. I like real Content Management Systems instead of a blog pushed out of shape to try to make it one.

But for blogging, I’m happy with it.

I tried B2Evolution for our MicroWebmaster Blogs. I found it confusing, and limited in ways that I just cannot deal with. I don’t want to have to create php pages and hack files just to put in a static page! And the backend is not at all intuitive - it is never quite clear whether you are setting global settings or individual blog settings, and spam control is quite limited. I WANTED to make it work! I’m not opposed to learning new things, but this one just could not stretch to provide the simplicity and flexibility that I needed for this system.

We are going with WordPress MU. It was my first choice, but some of the documentation is out of date, which makes it appear to be much harder to set up than it really is. Newer forum posts cleared up the issue though, after I went back to research a second time. The entire install took just the upload time, and about 3 minutes to set up the database and run a quick installer.

I’m liking this… familiar, and choices are clearly labeled. The volume of experience and direction behind this is clearly evident.