My love/hate relationship with Wordpress
When I first started blogging, it wasn’t called blogging. It was just called “keeping an online diary”, and most of us did it manually. When I say “us”, I refer to the people I knew who did such things at the time. After a while, I, like so many others, moved over to using such technological wonders as Diaryland and Blogger, and eventually Greymatter (which later evolved into b2).
But then rumours began circulating of this new, wonderful blogging platform that had surfaced. Wordpress was the name, and enhanced blogging was the game. Slow as I am to catch onto new things, it took me a while to make the move over to Wordpress, and when I did, it wasn’t complete - I still made all of my pages outside Wordpress. But I loved it. Oh, how I loved it. So much that I eventually decided to take a chance and have Wordpress run my entire site.
Then came the hate.
Template tags, permalink structures, the Loop. It made my head spin, my hands curl into fists and my temperature rise on every occasion I had to deal with these things. And today, today was no exception. I’m just glad I went to bed when I did last night, instead of staying up to finish it and see the new theme launched. Because even though I thought that the only things missing were mere details, little things that I had just overlooked, I was wrong, oh so wrong. I’ve spent large portions of today trying to fix things, and I have to admit that I do not understand what has been the “make or break” solution to many of my problems, but you know what? I don’t care right now. Because it works.
And so I can once again say to Wordpress: I love you. But don’t you dare mess with my archives again, or I’ll have to smack yo ass, in the non-sexy way.
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November 26th, 2007 at 12:13
Hi, do you have an email? I need to email you about something.
Hahaha…I’ve always felt the same way about WP. So much, that I had to make my own CMS. That didn’t have the functionality of anything, except my boyfriend helped me a lot to develop categories and what not. I love him…
Well, off-topics aside..I discovered Expression Engine, cause even when I tried for the gazillion time to deal with WP, it wouldn’t work. We were not meant for each other.
This EE thing I’m talking about is the love. Everything is so easy and it works similar to PHP. I love it and I recommend it to everyone.
Mind if I tell you the font size in the textarea is way too small? It’s very difficult to read.
Reply: You’ve got mail. ;) I fixed the textarea text, thanks for pointing that out. Let me know if it still seems too small to you. :)
November 28th, 2007 at 21:29
Hahaha, I enjoyed reading this :)
I Love wordpress, but I don’t love the coding, :) I have no idea how to create my own theme :) It’s haaard. I have a blog using wordpress, but the theme is a generated one, it looks terrible. Love the look of yours ;)
When did you start this site then? :)
[Email me or leave comment on my website] :}
Joe.