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I’ve been looking at various blogging products for a while now. I’ve downloaded numerous products and dutifully installed, briefly tried, and then deleted most of them. Two I have kept coming back to.

I have followed pMachine since the early days of that product. Always powerful and configurable, it has now evolved into a version called Expression Engine. It has also become complex and more like a well featured content management system (CMS), than a pure blogging system. Given some programming skills and creativity you can create some amazing newspaper style sites and sites that don’t resemble blogs at all. Neat.

In contrast, Wordpress has stuck to its roots as a powerful, but easily used and configured blogging system. It can be used as a straightforward CMS if you want to, however blogs are what it is good at.

After installing pMachine, I could see what a powerful system it is and the pMachine forum is full of hacks and plugins to make it more powerful still. I just wanted to blog so it seemed pretty daunting.

Ten minutes after installing Wordpress I was writing my first blog - it’s that simple to use. It does everything that I want and I don’t (yet) feel the need to delve into its code. Wordpress is highly recommended if writing rather than programming is your aim.