is WordPress the best blog package to use?

[odysseus]

Hey guestcam,

I use wordpress for my blogs, but have recently looked into a few other solutions. Some are more suited for multiple authors, some run ASP.NET as opposed to PHP. Perhaps I can help you find what you are looking for. As Walrus said, bBlog uses smarty templates, so that may be useful for getting your designs going. From what I understand of it, you just take a tag which is formatted like {somefunction} and insert it where you want it to happen. I don't know where a list of all the tags are, maybe walrus knows. I didn't look too deep into the documentation. But, as was said in other replies, you will have pretty much the same default skins in each blogging package, very vanilla stuff.

Since there is such a huge ammount of porn blogs running wordpress, and I haven't seen any good skins for porn, I'm going to be making some skins soon. It seems almost every porn blog I see is running the same 5 skins. I'm making a bunch of skins for wordpress that are specifically targeted for porn blogs. I'd like to show you a sample, but I'm still working bugs out. I want to have them work right out of the box for people with no problems. Eventually I'd like to try to port these to other platforms, which is why I did the research in mentioned in the previous paragraph. It may still be a month before I roll out the first few, but if you'd like any advice on skinning a wordpress blog, or finding your way around the WP documentation, feel free to PM me.

Here is the link to bBlog, by the way: http://www.bblog.com
And here's one similar to wordpress that looks pretty cool:
http://nucleuscms.org/ although they have very similar available skins.

[guestcam]

Originally Posted by odysseus

......As Walrus said, bBlog uses smarty templates, so that may be useful for getting your designs going. ....

I'm going to be making some skins soon. It seems almost every porn blog I see is running the same 5 skins. I'm making a bunch of skins for wordpress that are specifically targeted for porn blogs. I'd like to show you a sample, but I'm still working bugs out. ..........................skinning a wordpress blog, or finding your way around the WP documentation, feel free to PM me.

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http://nucleuscms.org/ although they have very similar available skins.

thanks for the offer and the info. When you get your skins ready to use - either for bblog or WP let me know. Yeah the smarty tag method definately helps the HTML writer get the job done a bit easier - as oppose to the science of where in the php code am I gonna place my graphics and style codes? that ya need to know for WP mods. Unfortunately bblog - from what I am seeing linked to the home site - is really low on the plugin count.

anyhow - I am sort of working the blog project at half speed at the moment. I got blindsided with the task to find a new tgp host for one of my domains, so I've been researching that for a bit. Not like I had any thing else to do in the second half of December huh?

Well I hear the drier buzzer buzzing - time to go do the white clothes now

H

[walrus]

Bblog is lite in the plug-in area....but it seems to do almost everything I want plus I've been able to do things that you simply can not with Wordpress or the others (I am making an assumption since I've never tried with any of them but I've also never seen anyone else doing what I am)

My biggest complaint is that they really don't have a good way to handle spam....yet. The next release is supposed to have it and a bunch more stuff and last I checked it's due in a few weeks. In the mean time, I have installed a simple word filter hack that has made the problem more than tolerable.