TuxRunner

W00t! Another upgrade of WordPress seems to have gone well. Can you tell I have very little faith in this process. It’s not just WordPress, pretty much any of these PHP websites worry me. Ok, now that I haven’t posted in a few weeks? Months? I guess I’ll try to use this update in WP to open the gates again. Stay tuned…

WordPress 2.3.2 was released about 26 days ago…and I finally did this update. I always hate doing these. They make it sound simple and easy all the time, but there’s always some “catch” to it. Typically these php-based installations are just a matter of untarring the new version right over the top of your existing version. Most of the data contained in the install is actually in the MySQL database associated with it. But of course, WordPress is just as tricky as the rest of them.
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 vs.  Yeah, I’m using both right now to manage a few different sites that I have…and I keep wondering which one is better for me to use for each.  I guess it all depends on what you want to do.  There’s a lot of overlap.  Both can use plugins and you can place content into “areas” of the site.  WordPress uses widgets, but you have to have a template that’s aware of widgets.  Joomla uses site modules that can be placed into positions pre-defined in the template you’re using.

Joomla is a lot more difficult to use, but that’s because of how much you can do with it.  It’s highly configurable.  WordPress isn’t that far off though.  WordPress is definitely better at doing single-person blog style postings with minimal categorization.  Joomla caters more to a larger collection of varied postings, and can handle postings from more people easier. (continue reading…)