Do You Blog Or Do You Fiddle With WordPress?
Here’s an extract from an email I sent earlier this morning. My freind and I had exchanged several emails in the past few days about some problem he and I had had with WordPress 9the tool I am currently using to blog here), with Akismet (the plug-in that the makers of WordPress developed to help combat ‘comment spam’ and mainly a problem with users of WordPress who take a free tool and then try to earn money off raw beginners in what seems to me to be an 7underhanded manner … backed, it seems by WordPress itself. It’s enough to make guy quit … or to sit back and decide on ways to make things better rather than bitch \about what you aren’t going to change:
… Funny just before your mail came in I had been reading my feeds and saying ‘get to work, Dave’ …. and I realized just how many of my current feeds are WordPress related. WordPress this and WordPress that …I bet if someone did a "latent semantic analysis" of all the posts in my feed reader WordPress would come up way ahead of making money, or running a business, or building traffic …. as I said yesterday I’m not going on any rants, but this WordPress thing has insidiously taken over my online life .. this must be how an alcoholic or a drug addict gets hooked … a little now, a little more later, and the next thing you know you are in the gutter begging for coins LoL…
I am going to get rid of WordPress sometime quite soon. I am not replacing it with a single product but with several as I get my VRE (Virtual or on-line) Real estate empire whipped into shape. But I am not throwing the baby out with the bath water, so I am going to give WordPress a further try here in a more magazine-like, content management style theme.
Mainly this post is a reminder to me, and to you … keep your eye on the prize. I hope you have a goal set by now … and your waking minutes should be focused on that goal, not on either being a shill, an apologist or an unpaid commentator for what is, after all, just one way to blog and blogging is only one way to earn money online.
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Get rid of Wordpress? Which platforms are you considering moving to? I think you’ll like the “magazine” style. It makes it seem less “Wordpressy”.