WordPress.org Blog Software Review: Highly Recommended

I earlier reviewed the free hosted version of WordPress,WordPress.com (recommended).

The non-hosted version, as in you download it to a Web server and configure it, is available from WordPress.org. Most of the "in-crowd" recommends WordPress, and with good reason. It's free, stable, there are hundreds of free software plug-ins and extensions available, and an active support community.

WordPress runs on most platforms that support the MySQL database and PHP, a widely available and popular open source programming language.

It's a great platform, and it's fans have an almost religious fervor! Maybe it's open source heritage has something to do with that.

Non technical folks may not be comfortable downloading/installing/configuring WordPress. although it's not difficult. Some hosting providers advertise "one click install" for WordPress - anyone have experience with any of these??

Comments

[Jonathan]

Ted & Shel, I enjoy reading your blog and I would like to comment on your post about "one-click" installs. My hosting company provided one of those one click installs and I tried it. The problems were:
1) it installed an older version of WordPress (Wordpress is updated every month or so)
2) there was no guidance on installing plug-ins
3) it installed on directory not easily accessible to me or with full ftp control.
I subsequently taught myself how to install and configure WordPress and I can now customize to my heart's content.
So, bottom line for me - the one-click install is a dead end.
--Jonathan Ginsberg
Atlanta, GA

[T Demop, Blogging for Business]

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your feedback.
It sounded too good to be true, but hopefully some of the other "one click" installs work a little better?