Category Archives: Wordpress

Does Google prefer WordPress over Drupal?

After 2 weeks of hard work, I have ported spacebug from Drupal to WordPress. I still believe that these are both great web platforms and have their unique advantages in their domain. I am planning to do a technological comparison between Drupal and WordPress later on this month, but the major change I see is in terms of hits from Google.

I have noticed an immediate increase in hits from Google on the same content, using the same SEO principals and same links. The increase is significant (around 20% more traffic over the last 5 days)

Which makes me wonder:
Does Google prefer WordPress over Drupal?

Great New Free WordPress Themes From Skinpress

There are a lot of good WordPress themes out there and a lot of deprecated ones too. In my pursuit for a great WordPress theme I went over hundreds of themes. I finally came across skinpress themes. IMHO they provide a great set of themes, offering WordPress 2.9.2 new features support and all the social goodies.

Here are two examples:

Grungie wp theme

Disclaimer: WordPress themes evolve very rapidly, if you are reading this post in a year from now (let’s say April 2011) this recommendation might be deprecated.