WordPress vs. TypePad: Michael Pollock's Perspective

Michael Pollock made a repeat appearance on Conversations with Experts in our 58th Conversation in the series. Over the last year Michael has transitioned from using TypePad blogs to WordPress. He shared with us the pros and cons of blogs hosted by a third party provider and hosting a blog on your own server as you do with WordPress.

A primary reason Michael recommends WordPress is that you can build your entire web presence, not just a blog, with WP and integrate the complete look and feel. Rather than having multiple sites to manage, it can all be done through your WordPress control panel.  There is also a huge community of WP users who can provide support and help, and who are constantly developing new features, plug-ins and templates (themes).

If you saw our poll on which blogging platform business bloggers use, you'll see that WordPress gets 47% vs. TypePad's 21%.

Sites we discussed:

Michael's WordPress driven website/blog:
http://www.solostream.com

WordPress driven site without a blog:
http://www.hfsleuth.com/

Where to find a list of plug-ins for WordPress:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

Tutorials on installing WordPress:
http://www.solostream.com/category/tutorials#post-621

http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/wordpress.html

The Blog Squad's hub site created on SquareSpace (similar features as WordPress, but hosted by a third party):
http://www.blogsquad.biz

Michael had some great info to share so be sure to listen to this 57 minute program.  If you missed the program, you can get the audio for only $9.95 at Conversations with Experts.

Conversations with Experts is hosted by The Blog Squad, Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff.