Using WordPress…

I switched over to using WordPress for my personal blog. Drupal was a bit heavyweight and I wanted to get some experience with WordPress. Hopefully all the posts moved over correctly (I know I have some formatting tweaks to do and stuff).

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9 Responses to “Using WordPress…”

  1. Onyx, novel captcha! I’m going to have to try something like that. I enjoy the one about placing a box of puppies, and having the submit button be the kitten that doesn’t belong.

  2. OnyxRaven says:

    Yeah – the little captcha plugin I installed is pretty basic, but I think I’m going to add onto it to do some of the things I mentioned in my previous CAPTCHA post.

    Puppies and kittens though – I think that might distract people enough to not post ;-)

    (I can think of a few good ways to do that one, too).

  3. david says:

    Yea nice captcha. Too bad it took me 4 tries to get the right answer :)

    The page seems to be loading lots faster too :)

  4. david says:

    BTW, your Amazon Wishlist link doesn’t seem to be working :(

  5. OnyxRaven says:

    Should be ok now. Think I had the internal link on there.

    WordPress does pretty spiffy page-level file caching that works quite well.  Drupal did caching, but only in the DB (never cared enough to dig down to making it file based).  That accounts for a heck of a lot of the speed.

    I’m set up at dreamhost, and the database servers are ‘far’ from the webservers, so it incurs a bit of latency.  Not having to go back to the db for everything helps.

  6. Gellar says:

    this is pretty bland looking compared to the other sites! come on bud!

  7. david says:

    I like it. Remember, less is more :)

  8. Eric Cosky says:

    Funny, I did the opposite and switched from WordPress to Drupal not too long ago. Drupal does seem slower, but I haven’t really optimized it yet. I’m a programmer and when I tried to enhance my WordPress code it started to become annoying so I switched over.
    The jury is still out as far as I’m concerned but I do like the Drupal programming model better. WordPress is definitely easier to get to a properly functional state though.

  9. OnyxRaven says:

    Yeah, its a tossup, for sure. Who knows, I might go back to drupal, but the blog parts of drupal don’t seem as mature as in wordpress. Since thats primarily what I want to do right here, I thought i’d give WP a try.

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