If there’s one phrase guaranteed to be wasted on the search engines (with 233 million results!), it’s the title of this post. Nonetheless, I’m using it for a simple reason – I don’t like it.

Now I like WordPress, I do – but when I get a new blog put up, and spend an hour or so tweaking it the way I want, then standing back and admiring my personalized site on the Internet, I definitely do NOT think of it as ‘just’ another blog. It’s mine, my efforts, and it’s special – and personal. So why build in a message that trivializes the work of the person making the blog?

Oh, I know what you’re saying – we can change it so easily. True – but then why are there 233,000,000 results? Are their WordPress blogs ‘just’ not like ours?

And dictionaries agree with me on this – here’s a sampling of definitions for ‘just’:

• Merely; only: ‘just a scratch.’
• Simply; only; no more than; ‘they were just interested in making money’
• Only or merely: ‘He was just a clerk until he became ambitious’

And so on.

But we aren’t making ‘merely’ another WordPress blog – we are making a place on the web. It’s not ‘just’ a blog – when we set it up, when we personalize it, or even when we finally change that message – so why have the message at all?

Let WordPress Central know you’d like to see something different, and post your preferences for what you’d like to see here – even if it is for ‘just’ leaving off the message’s ‘just’!