Here’s the thing.

I still manage multiple WordPress blogs and, with the exception of one of them (on a unique host), I can generally upgrade to the latest release in under 5 minutes. As far as I recall, that was one of the reasons for switching to SquareSpace – get out of the maintenance job.

What were the other reasons? From memory (though I probably blogged about it at the time) one other reason was the “everything is drag and drop” aspect. But really, that’s only of any use when I’m changing the look and feel or basic structure of the site. Which is, frankly, not very often. In any case, I’ve found SquareSpace’s limitations to be quite constraining on a number of occasions.

There’s always the promised “Version 6″ engine from SquareSpace. Eventually. Goodness knows when it will actually be released. If I match the current marketing hype to the reality of Version 5, then I’m really not expecting much of value from Version 6.

To be honest, the biggest reason to stick with SquareSpace right now is the amount of effort it will take me to switch back to WordPress. It’s not even so much the migration of the posts – which will be more difficult going back the other way – as the mucking around with domain records.

So, to SquareSpace or not to SquareSpace? That is the question…