Micks Distractions

I recently moved my blog away from Joomla and over to WordPress.

This was for sev­eral rea­sons:
1. Joomla is a pain in the bum for blog­ging. Its too com­plex for a blog and I keep for­get­ting the dif­fer­ences between a “com”, “mod­ule” and a “plu­gin”.
2. Upgrad­ing is a pain in the bum. I just recently noticed that half my con­tent went miss­ing as part of a recent upgrade.
3. I had bought an iPhone and wanted to be able to post while out and about. Get­ting this going in Joomla was a pain in the bum, (although I dis­cov­ered after switch­ing to Word­Press that it wasn’t really Joomla’s fault).
4. My old TreeCam blog was run­ning on an old ver­sion of s9y, and I wanted to com­bine it all.

Not that Joomla is all bad, it’s a great CMS app, but just not for blog­ging. It has a fan­tas­tic plu­gin, (mod­ule or what­ever the heck you call it), for eCom­merce, (virtue­mart), and even a blog thingy. I always found it to be a strug­gle. One of those things. It’s not designed for blogging.

It was a good deci­sion to move. Word­Press is infi­nitely eas­ier than Joomla. None of the learn­ing curve. So far there seems to be the same num­ber of plu­g­ins for both, but it looks like Joomla is get­ting a lit­tle “stale”. Installing plu­g­ins for Word­Press is damn easy. Almost a “one click” install or upgrade for all plu­g­ins and templates.

Since the switch I’ve dis­cov­ered all sorts of good­ies. EG out of the box weblog API, RPC calls, blog pings, dead link monitoring.

Nice. Really pol­ished app.

Even bet­ter is the fact that I didn’t need to do any­thing for my iPhone to start post­ing to my blog. Just install Blog­Press, (and the free Word­Press app), from the Apple app store, enter in my site, and start blog­ging. I even used it to migrate from Joomla to Word­Press, as you can post to mul­ti­ple sites in one hit.

Blog­Press’ set­tings page

You can post pic­cies and videos to Picasa and YouTube. Spec­ify mul­ti­ple blogs to post to.

Pulling down posts

Post­ing a story

Is dead easy, although may be a prob­lem for those who don’t know their HTML.

Insert­ing images

Just click on the cam­era icon top right, and you can insert pho­tos directly into the post.

Save or post?

You can post it, or save it as a draft for later.

Post­ing an entry

You’re also given the option of view­ing it in Safari, which is a minor annoy­ance for me. It’d be good to be able to turn it off.

Which ends up look­ing like the fol­low­ing of you have installed the iPhone Word­Press plugin.

This is all cool stuff, and it just all works the way you’d expect it to.

– Posted from my iPhone

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