I think a lot of people use WP just because they know how. They call it simple, because it is familiar, when in actuality, they spent months learning how to use it. Then they don’t want to learn anything else because it means another learning curve. That’s just human nature.

I work with both – I have to. But I find myself choosing Joomla for sites more than WP, because of the flexibility. WP is always my first choice for a blog though.

I’m still thinking the only workable model to really earn with WP will be a mostly automated one. Fortunately I’ve got the software to auto-install it and to personalize it, so I can let customers purchase it and have all the work done by an installer script (better than Fantastico, our script creates the hosting account, installs a pre-configured install of WP with whatever plugins we have it set up for, puts the sitename and owner name into the site and contact form along with whatever other personal info we want, and pre-installs a selection of custom templates).

Anyway, I can see that being potentially profitable long term.

I do believe some people expect to pay less for wordpress. Some people have not idea what all is involved creating either.

Moving wordpress is tricky because of site’s url stored in the database, learned that when I moved my first site to a new host. Thankfully I’ve since learned better ways to do such.

Knowing wordpress well, it is much easier for me to edit wordpress templates, that point I’ll disagree on.

Still loving wordpress, building such for others I don’t see as a large income producing model. I find myself turning wordpress site work down and spending more time in more productive areas.