Ah, I love Wordpress and it’s use of Ajax for it’s “Auto-Save Draft” feature.  I had put a bit of thought into a post last night, then I shut my computer off before thinking to finish the post and publish it.  I was grateful this evening when I logged back in, remembering I hadn’t posted the message, and the draft was sitting there, quite current, waiting for me to finish my thoughts and publish it.  More proof that I love this platform

Ok, so WordPress finally and completely won me over today.  They have a wealth of plugins, themes, and a huge community supporting their ecosystem.  Whether you’re running your own web-blog, a photo-blog or even a podcast, there are plugins to support that.  Since it’s free, it’s even a great resource for small and large enterprises alike.  I’m hosting my own instance of WordPress-MU simply to make it easier to maintain the 2 or 3 core blogs of different topics I am interested in, and the soon to be 2 or 3 more “test” blogs I’ll be creating as I attempt various less-common blog types such as photo-blogging and knowledge-blogging (a probably mistaken name for the concept of blogging at least one bit of information that you learned about on any given day).

I knew I’d do it too…  This is actually an edit since I posted the entry and then remembered the big feature that I just learned of that made me think to write this post.  There are instructions on importing your blog from wherever you hosted it last, and the instructions are quite clear.  I have found that this is very compatible with the overall experience of the latest versions that I have seen of WP.  Things are laid out simply, clearly and the user experience seems to make a lot of sense.

Well, the installation of Wordpress MU went fairly smoothly, although a problem that I think was with my ISP caused me to have to download it straight to my webserver for the installation.  After that, the setup was insanely easy, although I managed to “Archive” my main site by accident, locking me out until I did a database fix.

Anyway, I have to say that I’m very happy with the interface.  I’m also very happy with the rich set of themes, widgets, and the rich community surrounding the product.  The requirements for hosting your own are very low, unlike some of the others I’ve tried in the past.  We’ll see how actively I can use this now.

Signing off to get some sleep…   I know, I know, it’s still REALLY early for a techie.