Free Blog Sites: Blogsome
The next WordPress-based free blog site I want to review is Blogsome. I’ve had a site hosted here for a couple of weeks and it’s not bad, but not very good. Response times are slightly faster than WordPress.com, with average load times being around 2.5 to 4 seconds.
- Plugins: Yes, VERY limited selection
- Themes: 27
- Commercial Sites Allowed:No
- Virtual Hostnames:Yes
- Domains:No
The plug-in selection at Blogsome is awful. While it’s nice they support plug-ins, they are not very useful. Of the ten plug-ins supported, four are editor related (Why anyone would want to change the behavior of the WordPress editor, I can not imagine) and two are spam-related (But no Akismet). I’m a plug-in freak, I guess (I use over thirty on my main blog), and this selection just doesn’t interest me at all.
Theme selection is not much better. Most are very old, plain, and rather unattractive. The latest dates in the theme list were March 2005. If you want your blog to look completely out of date, then I guess that’s ok.
OLD described Blogsome well, in fact. I’m not sure exactly which version of the software they’re using. Looking at the page source shows “WordPress 1.5.1-alpha” as the generator. I wasn’t using WordPress in 2005, so I assume this is the version number of WordPress around which WordPress Multi-User was built at some point in history. I guess this would explain why “Hello Dolly” was the only plugin I’d ever heard of.
My final complaint is that Blogsome adds an out-of-place button ad for itself in your sidebar. I have no problem with free blog sites promoting themselves on customers’ blogs, but the button just looks wrong on my tan-colored theme. It also doesn’t really give visitors any compelling reason to click on it.
I chose Blogsome for a third-string niche site because it was WordPress based, had a decent Google Pagerank, and was not particularly well-know. While it hasn’t failed me, I probably wouldn’t use it again, mostly just because of the theme choice. It’s important to me that a blog look good, and that just won’t happen at Blogsome.
December 31, 2008 at 10:45 am
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