Why I switched to WordPress
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Gregg and Dale were wondering why I switched blogging platforms from Squarespace to WordPress.
If you were not wondering, you should stop reading now. 
Here’s what I’m doing with WordPress that was impossible with Squarespace, even after repeated appeals to their tech support.
Comment spam management. I get between 5 and 20 spam comments per day, and it’s been increasing. Squarespace has no support for automatically flagging obvious spam (like contains the word “Cialis”), using blacklist sites, or CAPTCHA. Wordpress not only has all these options, but features like “Moderation required, ..read more