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Blogging Software - Wordpress vs BlogEngine.NET vs Anything else

Basically, I need to choose one so that I can quickly get acquainted with it, and then configure it to my needs.

I am a .NET developer and I know classic ASP. But I think that understanding PHP will not be a problem for me, and also think that it will not be so difficult.

What do you want to recommend to me?

UPDATE: -
Sorry that I am adding this information late. Now I don’t know what kind of tuning I will do. But I'm sure that in the future I will have my own requirement and you will need to customize. So I don’t want to be in a situation where I will need to say: “This engine that I use will not allow me to change XYZ, or it will be too difficult for me to change XYZ in this blogging software, so let's move on to something still."

I would prefer a short learning curve.

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Go with Wordpress . It is easy to configure, and there is a ton of information about its configuration.

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Wordpress is good, but if you are a .NET developer, BlogEngine.NET is extremely easy to distribute. The disadvantage is a much smaller community and resources, but if you want to make some real settings and tweaks, BlogEngine will probably suit your tastes a lot better. There is decent support from the developer community and support for settings and plugins for BlogEngine, but you will find that most of the information is out of date or maintenance has been forgotten.

If you want something with many community widgets, plugins and tons of themes, Wordpress is your primary choice without question. But this is if you are going with canned solutions. There are many of them, and you can still customize and tune them, but it depends on how comfortable you feel when collecting a new paradigm. Setting up Wordpress is not so much PHP development as Wordpress development, as you will be so deep in the world of Wordpress and API.

Both are available in the MS Web Platform Installer, check them out of your box and play with them. It really goes down to what you feel is just right. I used both for different projects, but again I abandoned my own work with BlogEngine more than Wordpress. But this is for my personal belongings.

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If you know .NET and C #, before PHP and mySql it will look like you were back in the 19th century and should burn coal in your "car" instead of tanking your ray at the local gas station :-)

One interesting thing about BlogEngine.NET is that it will work without SQL Server - only with XML files as storage. If you know your programming, I don’t have to tell you what kind of flexibility it provides. Not that I recommended actually running the website for a long time without SQL Server, but such dual support opens up some very interesting options.

Should I mention that it comes with Visual Studio sln and proj files? :-) This pretty much means a zero learning curve.

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