Comments on: The Great Blog CMS Showdown: WordPress vs Tumblr vs Posterous

By: FrannLeach

FrannLeach — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:52:02 +0000

If you're on a cpanel host with fantastico, you can use that to install wordpress.org with no ftp experience required, also there's a one click install on Dreamhost.

By: Chad Egeland

Chad Egeland — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:54:00 +0000

Thanks for the comment!
One of my favorite features of Tumblr is the one tick of a box to enable auto-posting to Twitter and Facebook. Fortunately the best feature of Wordpress is the enormous community dedicated to creating fantastic themes and plugins to extend the functionality of Wordpress itself. I did a little searching and found: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordbook/ I haven't used it but it's supposed to be one of the best plugins available for Wordpress to auto-post your blog posts to Facebook. Hope this helps.

By: Bas

Bas — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:11:49 +0000

Have used tumblr, switched to Wordpress.org a week ago, mainly because of the (almost built-in) stats, and additionally the ease of adding pages, configuring the sidebar with different widgets & links, and the great free themes that come with it.

However, one great pain in the butt is finding plugins to autopost new blogposts to twitter & facebook. I have found a decent one for twitter now, but still searching for a facebook-plugin that works. Double annoying because in Tumblr it's as easy as ticking a box >:-(

By: Onur

Onur — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:31:38 +0000

i am also at the same turning point. i hosted my own blog for years with wordpress but now many other easy posting options and auto-post features of posterous makes me want to switch. i tried to make wordpress the same (almost) as posterous with adding necessarry plug-ins like posty, wp2twitter etc. but that doesn't feel the same. on the other hand it's good to know that you have everything under your own hands with a self-hosted wordpress. i also edit the theme to fit it to my needs. not being able to do it with posterous/tumblr annoys me.

By: Chad Egeland

Chad Egeland — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:18:53 +0000

Thanks for the comment Chris. I enjoyed your take on hosted blogging platforms: http://cnadeau.evolvingsolutions.ca/click-here-...

I have tried all three platforms that you mentioned in your post but for me Tumblr is my favorite hosted blogging platform because of it's integration with Disqus, great themes available and it's ease of use.

By: chrisnadeau

chrisnadeau — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:47:22 +0000

Love the showdown Chad. I could of saved some time writing mine and just shared yours. I am a Posteorus fan first, but Tumblr is a very close second. The speed of posting is what makes me a huge fan of the life streaming platforms.

By: markwitt

markwitt — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:56:59 +0000

Wordpress wins buy a landslide because of their ease of use and my personal favorite their blog posting software.