After installing and trying out another weblog’s tool as TextPattern, MoveableType, Pivot, CuteNews, and Nucleus, I finally chose Word Press as my weblog’s tool for the replacement of PMachine. I chose WP because I like the development, plug-ins, and many other things I couldn’t get on PMachine as they seemed to only take their Expression Engine’s users as number one priority and help them more than PMachine PRO users. I used to collect all the hackscripts of PMachine when I still used PMachine to avoid losing one of the hackscripts I had because it’s very hard for me and all the PMachine users to find all those hackscripts one by one by calling google. PMachine doesn’t have a Wiki, they also don’t care to collect all the hackscripts they’ve made on one site. Expression Engine, which is a paid blogging tool, is not so popular as Word Press. According to me, not all of the people have a thought to pay its expensive blogging tool, pity. For about 1 1/2 years I’ve been using PMachine I finally had to say goodbye to PMachine but I was still asking myself whether Word Press really fits me or not. Luckily, they’ve already released WP 1.5.0 at the time I moved to Word Press, I started enjoying this weblog’s tool more than ever although I got difficulty with changing the theme and making new theme. But there are lots of nice WP Themes out there which I can just install within few minutes.
I use WP for my weblog’s tool because I see that its weblog’s tool is great and they, especially Matt, have a big obsession to improve WP more. Lots of webloggers have moved to Word Press for one main reason: they don’t want to pay for weblog’s tool and they also find Word Press as a great free weblog’s tool. And I don’t think it’s fine to require users to pay for a weblog’s tool from the first release as the users might be asking themselves whether they will really use its weblog’s tool or not, whether it’s worth it or not. When the users get disappointed if they don’t like it, they surely don’t get their money back and it will be spent for nothing. This payment requirement also doesn’t seem to grow and no wonder if lots of webloggers out there move to Word Press. Since WordPress.com is released, the big thing that happens on the blogosphere now, it gives a good impression for the other webloggers to choose Word Press as their weblog’s tool.
