You might have noticed that .simplicity has changed a bit. The reason for this change is the fact that we’ve switched to WordPress. Or rather, I switched .simplicity to WordPress. I was getting increasingly tired of SimpleLog. It felt outdated and missed several handy features. With WordPress we now have a drafting system, WYSIWYG posting, a user system, nested comments, polls and a modular sidebar. In my opinion these features benefit the readers of .simplicity. Besides that WordPress makes maintaining the site a lot easier. With WordPress it’s also extremely easy to add new features as many things have already been created by the open-source community. If we would be using SimpleLog we would have to create all these things from scratch. This is something I simply don’t want to spend my time on; I rather work on my posts and projects.

Unfortunately, Nick doesn’t really like WordPress. While I prefer WordPress, he prefers SimpleLog. He told me that SimpleLog’s admin panel was a lot better than WordPress. And the few features he did like he wanted to write for SimpleLog. Interesting he didn’t like WordPress widgets. That while he asked for modularity when we started .simplicity.

But it looks like we won’t be able to make a decision on the blogging engine together. So I’ll leave the decision up to the readers of .simplicity.

– Michael

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