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Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

mr Cheshire — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:04:47 -0000

I use wordpress i have never done anything like setting up a blog before and wordpress was really easy to set up

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Risa Edelstein — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:41:03 -0000

I have to say that the support at Typepad is great. I deleted my blog by mistake (don't ask) and they restored it.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Tegar M.Aji — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:11:06 -0000

commenting the week-to-week results:
- Firefox is the Best
- I didn't know Tumblr & Posterous features
- I never use Pandora & Last.fm
- I'm tired of Facebook, I prefer Twitter

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

RestaurantZoom — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:09:51 -0000

WP rocks hands down. No two ways about it.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

gwoodard — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:24:31 -0000

The ongoing result of the most fateful small business decision I can think of. OTOH, consumer computer users are so influenced by emotion that one image can slant some of them for the rest of their lives.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Foliovision — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:28:35 -0000

Actually Frederic, in my five years on Typepad, I've found the support there to be incompetent.

Instead of reading your support requests, Typepad support staff just copy and paste from an out of date knowledge base. Any competent user has already been to the knowledge base and tried those non-working solutions.

Extremely frustrating.

Crappy Typepad support was the main reason I wanted to move La Vie Viennoise out of Typepad.

With Wordpress, you can get lots of free support on the forums and if you want a helping hand, there is huge pool of freelance talent to help you with your site professionally.

For me, if I have to choose between free support and competent support, I know what I'll choose every time.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Foliovision — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:22:05 -0000

Hello Dave,

Typepad vs Wordpress is not nonsense.

If you would like to be trapped in a dying platform with no working export, yes Typepad is for you.

If you want to have free access to all your data in an open source environment with full portability, Wordpress is for you.

SixApart is selling a lie. Once you start with Typepad, there is no way out.

That's not my idea of ease-of-use. I'm surprised it's yours.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Srikanta — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:31:35 -0000

WordPress rocks till last :)

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Foliovision — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:17:40 -0000

Hi Donna,

I completely agree with you about Typepad export. As the world's leading conversion service from Typepad to Wordpress, we've moved dozens of old huge sites and hundreds of people have followed our DIY guidelines. Despite all our experience, the way SixApart have deliberately crippled export makes it hard work to do a clean transfer. Until SixApart get their act together and fix export (it's a ten minute fix to templates, which we've offered to give Anil Dash at no cost), no one should start a new website on Typepad, or heaven forbid, recommend it to new webloggers.

A Typepad website is a ticking time bomb.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

ffcode — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:52:55 -0000

what a comparison? isn't typepad paid? and wordpress open source? on what basis is that a voting thing?

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

sms scrape — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:36:34 -0000

i think wordpress is best and every one used also we first time watch this typepad.thanks for show new typepad.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

sudhir — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:19:06 -0000

@shamasis well I feel ur someway right. Typepad goes for corporates so it's not fair competition. Yes I would really luved to see WP vs Blogger, where it wud be gr8 competition considering so many G fans, but still nyday Wordpress would have won if u tell me to bet on!

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Shamasis Bhattacharya — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:06:09 -0000

Though I am a WordPress fan, I still think that this is an unfair poll. Primarily because the difference in the way the two blogging platforms pitch their products.

WordPress targets any and everyone, whereas TypePad has a more niché market of corporate users.

In my opinion, WordPress and Blogger would have been a fairer poll.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Phoenix — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:36:20 -0000

Pretty weird survey. Typepad doesn't even stand anywhere near Wordpress. Blogger vs Wordpress might have some competition.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Justin Goldberg — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:32:49 -0000

Blogger/Blogspot FTW! J/k

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Bryan Hauer — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:10:11 -0000

That's simply not true. It's amazing how many so called bloggers here have no idea what they're talking about. Both offer self hosted and hosted solutions. Some of the largest blogs in the world like CNN's blogs, NYT's blog etc... are on Hosted WordPress. That's WordPress.com for those that don't know.

Also from Dave above who seems to have a stick in his ass... it's a perfectly legitimate question/poll. Both offer the same solutions. The hosted solution is easier for newbies and both offer solutions. I could careless who wins, but saying it's like voting on apples and oranges is crazy talk. Plus I like oranges more. :)

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Bryan Hauer — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:52:04 -0000

Ummm. Why couldn't one use WordPress.com if they weren't tech savvy enough and didn't want to worry about all the problems? That my friend is a hosted solution and you can still customize your site completely if you choose. Look at CNN, BlogMaverick, NYT's blogs. All hosted solutions on WordPress.com.

On the self hosted side... most hosting companies now offer 1 click installs of WordPress. Sets up the mysql database and everything. All they have to do is login and start blogging. Finding a theme is easy free or premium as there's many more choices.

As for support... WordPress.com offers support and WordPress.org has a huge community around it where I'd bet anyone I'd get a quicker answer to a question than I would through a host. Also, most premium theme developers also offer full 24 hour support along with 3rd party designers/coders that for a couple hundred bucks would completely get your site exactly the way you want it. As for the backend... if you can use a word processor you can use WordPress.

I guess what I'm saying is the majority of your long comment is bs and not well thought out. Also it's a little whiny.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

DaveWeissDotNet — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:37:22 -0000

Exactly.

Mashable Poll for Today = FAIL

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

DaveWeissDotNet — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:29:57 -0000

My vote is that it's a stupid poll.

I have a ton of respect for Mashable and read it daily. But this author either didn't think about what they were writing, or worse, didn't care.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

We network — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:20:54 -0000

You should add Blogger to the poll. These are the three choices we offer to our clients and they always choose Blogger. We let them make the decision by showing the features and then draw attention to the other benefits signing up for a Google ID. We find that most businesses are attracted to Blogger because they can save a lot of time maintaining their blog and their online presence from the Google Dashboard. Wordpad is the second most popular choice followed by TypePad. These blogging platforms are are usually preferred by those who use the blog as their primary web address. We would like to see the results of a Blogging for business poll...

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

el desalmado — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:59:13 -0000

so what's your vote?

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Scott Barrington — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:35:03 -0000

wordpress is fantastic, best thing i ever started using.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

matt — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:00:22 -0000

i have never used typepad so i will say wordpress

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Christopher Ross — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:48:55 -0000

Typepad who?

WP offers the most flexibility in terms of platform (hosted or self-managed; windows or linux), customization (themes, plugins), and developer community. I'm looking at 3 books on the platform in my personal library, and can't recall seeing even one for TP anywhere.

Oh, and let's not forget WordPress Multi-user, BBPress (forums) and BuddyPress (communities). While not perfectly integrated (it's coming!), there are some phenomenal sites out there built on the WP platform.

Like with any platform, there will always be devoted fans of one or the other, and that's what I am with WP. But I got that way because there were no barriers to entry as a casual user (WP.com), fledgling developer (thanks to GoDaddy) or now as a full-on WP hacker with several sites that I manage.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Tom — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:00:02 -0000

Wordpress is free, but you pay for hosting if you want your own domain. Typepad isn't free, but hosting is included. Last time I checked, the difference in cost is negligible.