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WordPress: Most Mac-like Blogging Tool?

disclaimerWell, there's no official claim like this coming from Infinite Loop, but it just so happens that Apple's student blog is not only run off of WordPress, which has been a known fact for a while, but Apple has now updated the site so that is proclaims "Powered by WordPress" in the sidebar. Of course, this isn't an endorsement, as you'll notice from the text immediately above the "Powered by WordPress" bit.

I wonder if WordPress's support of podcasting had anything to do with the move... 

Well, there's no official claim like this coming from Infinite Loop, but it just so happens that Apple's student blog is not only run off...
 

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chris

Am I able to host a WP blog using .mac ?

July 21 2005 at 2:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Richard

Just a tip: The Tiger admin UI for WordPress works just fine in Safari. I've been using it pre and post Tiger and before it turned plugin and after. All's well and it's a fantastic addition to WordPress, already a great product. This back end theme was the missing link to make it even better.

July 21 2005 at 8:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adrianna

The Tiger interface for wordpress listed above works only in Firefox! I use spotpress for a similar purpose, though not exactly the same, it's good enough for me. http://homepage.mac.com/kohlmannj/wordpress/spotpress/ As a user of Wordpress and Textpattern, I try to love both equally.. though the former's large list of plugins and excellent documentation makes me think twice, I still have to say Textpattern is probably more mac-like. What's not mac-like about Textpattern, though, is in how you need to have some prior technical skill before being able to use it.

July 21 2005 at 12:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eric

I don't know about the "most-mac-like" blogging tool, but I know that WordPress is a great blogging tool. I use it myself via Blogsome. Keep up the good work.

July 20 2005 at 10:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alejandro Betancur

Yeah, but It would be nice if apple let us load wordpress in our .Mac account...

July 20 2005 at 8:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jamie Phelps

Not only is WP Mac friendly, you can change the interface to resemble Tiger with this plugin. http://orderedlist.com/articles/wordpress-administration-design-tiger/ I like this much better than the default interface. Then again, there's not much "default" that I like.

July 20 2005 at 9:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MB

I agree with the Textpattern plug. But blogging tools have a long road to follow before they are Mac like in usability. Closest you can get is using a desktop application like MarsEdit or iBlog to update your blogs. However, customizing the look and feel of your blog is still way too complicated. And that's the area in which Textpattern is leading the pack.

July 20 2005 at 4:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sunny

The most Mac like blogging tool is Textpattern. Its not evolutionary but revolutionary. Plus its more than a blogging tool. Its easy to use and grows with the user. That said, Wordpress is a nice tool and Matt deserves all the plaudits.

July 20 2005 at 2:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Thomas

If you have WordPress, get The Mac like admin area : http://www.twistermc.com/blog/2005/06/15/mac-os-x-tiger-for-wordpress

July 19 2005 at 10:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
D'Arcy Norman

Apple's doing more stuff with WordPress, in the academic community. For instance, there's the ADCE weblogs including http://edcommunity.apple.com/adc/tools/ Ironically, I was posting to one of my project weblogs via TypePad yesterday, and it struck me that it felt so much like using Windows. User experience is OK, but not quite as polished as WordPress (which I also use for my own blog)

July 19 2005 at 9:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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