Paul Whybrow
Full Member
I’ve sounded off about the complexities of using WordPress to run a blog and website in a couple of old threads:
https://colony.litopia.com/threads/the-help-paul-with-wordpress-thread.6139/#post-73076
As I’ve said before, I find WP needlessly complex and downright obstructive. Just looking at the dashboard makes me feel confused and annoyed. To do anything on my PaulPens writing blog and the Cornish Detective website usually requires me to search on Google for how to do so—it’s not an intuitive site.
2021 is going to be devoted to self-promotion, so last night I visited my two sites for the first time in four months intending to add posts and information about my foray into creating audiobooks. Foolishly, I updated the blog to the latest version of WP—it’s one of the most hacked sites in the world, so I figured that any increased security would be sensible. I always included pictures on my posts, but the new block way of posting frustrated me, so I gave up before going medieval on its ass!
I’m also out to promote my post-American Civil War Art Palmer series, which I recorded as audiobooks. I didn’t have a website for him yet, so decided to try out Blogger as a venue, as I’d read that it was simpler to understand. I penned two posts, one portraying Art, the other describing my motivations for writing the first story and opened an account with Blogger—easy-peasy, as it’s a part of Google and much of the information needed is already in my Gmail accounts.
I was delighted with how simple it was to upload my posts to Blogger and it was intuitive to understand, with pictures and videos easy to embed. I felt calm and confident doing so...the opposite of how I feel trying to use WordPress.
It’s true that WP has loads more features than Blogger, but for me, they’re unnecessary fripperies! I love the bare bones design of Blogger.
Put it this way, using Blogger feels like taking the saddle of a fairground carousel, whereas WordPress feels like trying to tame a bucking bronco!
Which do you prefer?
https://colony.litopia.com/threads/the-help-paul-with-wordpress-thread.6139/#post-73076
As I’ve said before, I find WP needlessly complex and downright obstructive. Just looking at the dashboard makes me feel confused and annoyed. To do anything on my PaulPens writing blog and the Cornish Detective website usually requires me to search on Google for how to do so—it’s not an intuitive site.
2021 is going to be devoted to self-promotion, so last night I visited my two sites for the first time in four months intending to add posts and information about my foray into creating audiobooks. Foolishly, I updated the blog to the latest version of WP—it’s one of the most hacked sites in the world, so I figured that any increased security would be sensible. I always included pictures on my posts, but the new block way of posting frustrated me, so I gave up before going medieval on its ass!
I’m also out to promote my post-American Civil War Art Palmer series, which I recorded as audiobooks. I didn’t have a website for him yet, so decided to try out Blogger as a venue, as I’d read that it was simpler to understand. I penned two posts, one portraying Art, the other describing my motivations for writing the first story and opened an account with Blogger—easy-peasy, as it’s a part of Google and much of the information needed is already in my Gmail accounts.
I was delighted with how simple it was to upload my posts to Blogger and it was intuitive to understand, with pictures and videos easy to embed. I felt calm and confident doing so...the opposite of how I feel trying to use WordPress.
It’s true that WP has loads more features than Blogger, but for me, they’re unnecessary fripperies! I love the bare bones design of Blogger.
Put it this way, using Blogger feels like taking the saddle of a fairground carousel, whereas WordPress feels like trying to tame a bucking bronco!
Which do you prefer?
