Choosing WordPress Mu for a blogging portal...

As I've been discussing, I'm in the midst of evaluating various pieces of software for Voxeo's blog portal. When I last wrote, I was debating between WordPress MU and Lyceum... I've now made the decision to move ahead with WordPress MU into the next stage of pilot testing. Why? Really one word...

Tags

As noted in the announcement of Wordpress 2.3, there is now native support for tags in addition to categories. It happens that I very much like the use of tags on a whole number of levels. Lyceum looks to be an excellent multi-user blogging platform, but its current release is based on the older WordPress 2.0.11. WordPress MU, on the other hand, is based on the current WordPress 2.3.1 release. (I'll note that somewhere in the site I saw that the Lyceum folks are working on a Lyceum 1.1 release that will be based on WordPress 2.3.1, but I need to move ahead now with the blogging project.)

That's the latest... stay tuned for more as I plunge into all the customization and configuration.

Technorati Tags: blog portals, blogging, wordpress, wordpressmu

Comments

[matt.lambert]

It would be great to understand your experience of this - and how culturally difficult you find the rollout, or not. E.g. Do most users already have readers?

Is this life at the bleeding edge?

[Dan York]

Matt,

Thanks for the comment. As it happens, I've now launched a new weblog on our (Voxeo) site focused on using WordPress MU:

http://blogs.voxeo.com/behindtheblog/

In that blog we intend to tell the story of what we had to do to get the site up and running... and what we do to it to improve and enhance the site over time. You're welcome to go over and check it out. Right now I'm mostly focusing on the *technical* issues around the blog, but do intend to get into more of the larger issues over time.

Thanks for the comment,
Dan