# 25 Reasons to Switch From WordPress To Octopress

Published: 2012-01-20
Tags: rants
URL: https://codebrief.com/2012/01/25-reasons-to-switch-from-wordpress-to-octopress/

1. Static content should be served statically
1. Disqus rocks
1. Ruby
1. Google rewards fast loading times
1. Markdown
1. Flat files are awesome
1. Sass
1. Compass
1. HAML
1. GitHub Pages
1. [This guy](http://mattgemmell.com/2011/09/12/blogging-with-octopress/) did it
1. Linode disk alerts are annoying
1. No more caching plugins
1. Hacker cred
1. Security
1. [Octopress Classic is the new Kubrick](http://wynnnetherland.com/journal/octopress-classic-is-the-new-kubrick)
1. Built on top of [Jekyll](https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll)
1. Web interfaces suck at content creation
1. Easily preview locally
1. Version with GIT
1. Compose in VIM
1. Wordpress has [customer service](http://www.tonywright.com/2007/interaction-with-wordpress-customer-service-not-so-fun/)
1. Score 93/100 instead of 55/100 on [PageSpeed](https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/)
1. Happiness as a developer
1. This Graph: 

![linode CPU](/images/posts/linode_cpu_after_octopress.png)

In case it's not obvious, I spent some time migrating this site over to [Octopress](http://octopress.org/).