Should I move from Tumblr to Wordpress?

Yes!

Wordpress is much more versatile! You will have a whole new world opened up to you, so many themes and plugins. I have not used dreamweaver in sooo long thanks to wordpress, and you'll never know!

Best web building platform out there, in my opinion!

If you think installing WP on your own domain with your own hosting package - it may be worth the effort.

If you think starting anything on wordpress.COM - forget it!

Using Wordpress is a nobrainer! Many things can be done with the click of a button! Those plugins which are availbe can do wonders to your site if used corretly. I strongly reccomend using Wordpress as it can make things such as SEO a lot more easy.

If you need any help getting your WP blog fully SEO optimized, let me know!

Mathias Vildbrad.

Tumblr is a great blogging platform, but like many have said, its not as versatile as Wordpress.

That being said, for blogging I prefer tumblr. My corporate blog is tumblr based and my personal blog is as well.

If you're going to go wordpress, I recommend getting a good host and some type of good security system. I use Sucuri.net and really like it. For hosting I'd go with either MediaTemple or Liquidweb.

Don't go with a host that offers unlimited _anything_, thats just marketing speak for completely oversold servers.

I'll be honest, I've never used Tumblr for self-hosted sites, so I can't speak about it's back-end, but if it helps at all, a friend of mine transferred a 2000-page site from Joomla to WordPress for the sake of greater leverage.

Take it for what it's worth...

simple answer: You should and if you need help, let me know, I own a web development company, I am sure we can help you out.

Just the plug ins available for Wordpress make it worth the switch.

And definitely get your own domain and hosting; nothing worse than someone else owning your income generator.

wordpress is definitely much better choice than tumblr, you can have much more plug in and better control of it. i tried tumblr fell month back but do not like how it works.

CY

Yes you should move because Wordpress is much more customizable and can easily be turned into a custom websites. Plus you can have your own domain. Tumblr is limited and you cannot make as much money from it. I would keep Tumblr to drive traffic to your new Wordpress website though.

Wordpress...

-EA

keep the tumblr! Good for a backlink to your new site! But yes, start a new site on wordpress (self-hosted, as others have said, because otherwise it's still a hosted site no diff. to tumblr) - and also make sure you get a keyword friendly domain. if you can't get an exact match then add a letter or two, max, or at a pinch a second keyword.

You really don't have to choose one or the other as they both have their strengths. You can use both, like you use Facebook and Twitter not one or the other.

Try this:

1. Install a self hosted WP site
2. Install the FeedWordPress plugin
3. Grab the RSS feed from your Tumblr site and have it repost all your "Tumbls" to your WP blog

Then you can:

• Take advantage of the easy, fast posting and other perks of Tumblr
• Take advantage of the full features of WP and post anything direct there that's too much for Tumblr
• Have all your Tumblr content safe and sound

Tumblr and WordPress are both too awesome to pass up on so use both together and it's a win, win.

That's right Michael, you grab a hosting account, point a domain at it and install WP yourself. If you want to have something other than your Tumblr blog this is kind of a "must" so you have total ownership of your site. Plus you really only get all the perks of WP if you self host.

I've had problems with Hostgator shutting down sites of mine on servers I suspect had too many people on them, so my personal hosting recommendation is Host Duplex.

What's the difference between wordpress.org and wordpress direct? Which should I go with?

The real wordpress is ONLY wordpress.ORG and wordpress.COM.
Everything else is just trying to make money from the popularity of this blogging script!

Wordpress.org - the place you download the free, open source blogging script from.
Wordpress.com - the place where the same guys offer a free blog (Warning: no commercial use allowed) as a subdomain, e.g. michael.wordpress.com

Defiantly, theres just so many options and plugins with Wordpress, its well worth the switch!

Wordpress takes a little bit more work to set up, but it is certainly worth it. You can then customize everything from SEO plugins to the theme. If you need any help (or hosting) PM me as I own a web hosting company

Daniel

It really depends on what your goals are for the blog.

Look, I make my living, full time, developing websites and 90% of that is WordPress development.

But the fact is that a lot of people try to make WordPress do something that another tool will do better.

Beware of anyone who has one answer for everything. They either have an agenda, have only one trick or they haven't thought it out much.

Tumblr has it's uses. If this is your first blog and you're not sure you are going to continue, there is nothing wrong with using tumblr (or blogger, or posterous, or squidoo, or, or, or, or...) for a while. When you decide it's something you want to get more out of, start a self hosted blog (WordPress is a GREAT choice, but honestly there are other self hosted systems and some very good reasons to use them), start one up and relegate the tumblr blog to a link and referrence aside for the main blog.

Even if you are already blogging on a self hosted blog, there are lots of great reasons to supplement it with a solid microblog hosted off domain.

For me tumblr is more for personal use than in business. If it is more freedom that you want and you are sure that you will be blogging for a long time then go wordpress.

Andrea

HA, did not know that tumblr is a source.
OMG, and it is a ugly one, also very unprofessional site.
Move A.S.A.P to wordpress.