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Serendipity vs Wordpress

Wordpress [Wiki] & Serendipity [Wiki] , both were the blogging software made using PHP with MySQL/postgresql..

Currently, my blog runs on wordpress blogging software. As per the google Statistics, wordpress has crossed the blogger at the inception of year 2007. This is the time, greed gets into the application.

Having used with wordpress for the past six months, i find some of its functionality made me iritated/intereste

  1. Wordpress has started doing some advertisement on the website. I have not seen any advertisement in my blog. Also, I am not sure whether the advertisement was done only on wordpress.com or all wordpress package. After all, all men were money minded.. next 3 points for wordpress installation on separate website..

  2. Regular Updates - Wordpress releases its minor revision every month. Added to that, they were releasing a major revision once in six months. For the user who were crazy for updates like me, find that it becames a more redundant job compared to writing the blog. ( eagerly waiting for September 24, wordpress 2.3 would be releasing)

  3. During upgrade of 2.1.2 to 2.2, i update the wordpress php files, one by one, to my surprise I can find that how poorly wordpress was coded. Here is a blog that explains poor coding in wordpress.

  4. Another one serious threat.. if somebody finds the user credentials of wordpress administator, he was powered to run any malicious php scripts in the server.


These were the some functionalities that makes me hate wordpress. But, Out of the two leading market players Blogspot vs Wordpress, wordpress was definitely far better than blogger.

The success of wordpress and poor coding of wordpress, results in thousands of attack on wordpress. The safer is to use the simple blog system but equally powerful as wordpress and I want that should be a open source. At this time, I hear about the web blog system called serendipity which has got better coding style. It would be definitely helpful for me to know about better coding style in php with serendipity. Here goes my first look on serendipity...

  1. Admin Screen is better organized in serendipity and i.e.. having sidebar menu (while top menu in wordpress).. child menu were displayed completely. This gives a complete functionality overview just on the quick overlook. Sometimes in wordpress. I would be confusing under which menu, miscellaneous menu comes..

  2. Visual Editor is Better.


Still it has so many better things.. But I find it lags many functionalities of wordpress. The page concept in wordpress makes it better software than just blog. In addition to that, be it widgets / blogroll extra plugins etcetra etcetra .. serendipity was limited. Updates wise, serendipity was no less than wordpress. Serendipity has got a good scope and great market ahead..

So to conclude, Changing from wordpress to serendipity is like changing from Bungalow(with the some internal cracks) to a well made Hut... Yes.. I can build my own Hut.. :)..

  • I have to change my attitude towards updates.

  • Wordpress has to revisit their quality of code.

  • serendipity has to move forward from just blog to web 2.0.

  • I have to start work on creating a opensource blog software...


Reference:

  1. Wordpress Vs Serdipity - perspective of Serendipity User.. http://www.christopher-chan.com/blog/index.php?/archives/343-WordPress-vs.-Serendipity.html

  2. Google Trends on various blogging software
    http://www.google.com/trends?q=wordpress%2C+blogger%2C+%2Cserendiptiy&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

  3. Wordpress Fund Raising
    http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050331-4759.html


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