Wordpress vs. B2evolution
28 03 2006
It’s been a year and half since I officially use b2evolution program for my blogsite. I am sorry I was pretty much have no choice but to abandon it due to poorly spam and refers system. It caused a lot of bandwidth and loads on our server.
Before I used b2evolution, I did test with few other programs such as Wordpress, Blogger, Mambo, and few other programs. I picked it because it offers a lot of features at this time. I knew Wordpress is supposed to be good but it lack multiple blogsite under same account back then.
Last weekend, I did re-consider heavily on either Movable Type or Expression Engine over Wordpress but Wordpress is only one that is free and offers plenty of themes and plug-ins. It was easy decision – I pick Wordpress not because it’s free but there’s more in it.
Other things that worry me the most is converting into different blog program. I found converter script at Wordpress forum and asked Brenden to help me with it. We did it with no problem. Only one thing that I have to fix manually is all of pictures link. It is partially my fault – I should have use different directory rather than use inside b2evolution directory.
Most important of all, all old links will not work once I closed it permanently. That’s mean some of you may have to re-fix it so you will continue getting feeds from my blogsite. Of course, it is good experience for me to go thru all of it. I didn’t think I can do it before but I am glad I did it anyway.
I already installed WYSIWYG Editor inside Wordpress. To me, it is a must. I also installed mini-calendar on it. Neat stuff. Now, I need to work on few things – add my blogroll back in action. I also need to some more cool stuff on my sidebar. Hopefully it will cooperate with me.
Other things about Wordpress’ advantage – handful of deaf bloggers use it too. This way we all can share and help each other 
Grant W Laird Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com
Don’t forget to add your information on “About Me” blah blah.
Hope you find out how to edit thry CSS and imagine to change different theme into your own taste.
How do we add About Me page?
gwlj
Go in Admin site, go to
Manage > Pages
then click Edit under “About” and type whatever you want to put the info.
I came across this post while doing a Google search to compare b2evolution (b2evo) vs. WordPress (WP). I am considering a new Web host, and one suggested looking at b2evo instead of WP because they currently support it. I am currently using WordPress as my interim blog and I like it. I tested the b2evo demo and was not entirely impressed. But it looks like you have used WP for a few months, and I was wondering if still like it. Thanks.
Yes, I love it!! No questions about it
this was kinda hard to follow? are you a native english speaker?
I have not tried wordpress, but I have tried b2evo and it is so unbelievably hard to get working. Once you do get it working some of the stuff doesn’t really work. Then you have the problem of all the years worth of stuff that you had on your other blog. What are you going to do about that?
Grant, thanks for posting this. I’m using b2evo on one of my blogs and it’s not too user friendly. I’d hoped for something like blogger for my users and instead it’s too techie for them. So, I end up having to edit their submissions. (Wastes my time and keeps the blog from being more community-oriented.) Glad I posted my pics outside of B2Evo!
I’ve also been getting spam. I tweaked the settings so that I have to approve comments. Not sure if a change to Wordpress would change any of that. (BTW, I like the submit comment followup option here!)
Thank you so much for posting this information. Only thing is when I did a search on Google for B2 vs. Wordpress on April 25, 2007 it returned this blog entry (looks like one year earlier).
Have issues re: the software changed since you first posted the comparison?
Are you still using Wordpress or has B2 improved for consideration?
Thank you so much for any replies to this comment.
Kindest Regards, B. Robert
Ya… Even i think so B2evo is not so handy, when the themes, look and navigation is concerned,,,,, we cannot have banners, etc etc…
Being a newbie to the Blogging world, this article was rather a bit helpful to me but if any one could suggest me if I would get a custom domain name if were to select WordPress. Something like mysite.com/blog
thanks a lot for this review..
im looking to use b2evolution, but when read your post, i dont want to use b2evolution anymore..
now im using wordpress..
wordpress rocks..