Sep 09
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Right, I don’t know why I’m suddenly getting loads of comments on this, but I’ve deleted this entire post. This blog is dead, and has been for years. This post was written in 2009!
I use Wordpress. My company uses Wordpress. I recommend Wordpress. Wordpress serves a purpose, and it saves me time, but it’s written like shit and a nightmare to work with. That’s just the way it is. It’s life. Move on.
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Yeah I agree, Drupal is better.
Wordpress is the bain of my existence! Calling it a piece of shit is an insult to pieces of shit! I even bought “Wordpress for dummies” and that too is a horror. My site? Yeah, I have to use it. Everything financial involved with it my company pays for, so I’m stuck. Computer Geek? Yes I am, but on the graphics side of things. Coding? My brain doesn’t work the way it needs to to understand coding, in fact, coding makes my brain bleed. Even so, my site looks and functions pretty good, but only after months of head scratching and cussing.
NOW, I’ve been roped into doing a similar site for my son’s guitar instructor (in exchange for guitar lessons). Here I am back at square one with a new blog site to build. Of course this instructor wants all sorts of shit I don’t know how to do and here I am again trying to make heads or tails out of WordPress For Dummies. . . I absolutely HATE WordPress!
I completely agree with you!
I can’t understand how wordpress is so popular. Don’t get me wrong, Wordpress by itself is a great blogging platform. At the moment I’m working on a wordpress site for a customer (who’s previous webmaster abandonned the project) and I feel like It’s been years I’ve performed so poor. Wordpress is lacking the base priciples of good programming (like separation of concerns and solid OOP for instance) or I’m missing something.
> I can’t understand how wordpress is so popular
Because millions affiliate marketers each build 30+ fake blogs with it every year.
Wordpress owes its entire success to marketers, not hobby bloggers.
I am a WordPress and Drupal fan. I am really surprised there are only 3 replies to this thread.
From end-user standpoint, WordPress is probably the best for two reasons: 1) end-users can easily update and change content themselves and 2) end-users can easily update the website themselves to the latest version(s) if the website is a simple blog.
Additionally, for most smaller websites with content only (less than 100 pages or 1000 with minimal styling differences between the various pages), I think WordPress is quite good.
Your all a bunch of thick wannabee web masters really aren’t you? How hard is to edit a .php and input the code you want? Fuck, download or try ‘inspecting an element’ if your not confident enough to do it first try when on a web page.
First stage > Get a theme, chuck it on, install some plug ins, write content.
Second Stage > Check out other wordpress blogs, find what you like > try and replicate the code or find another plug in which matches the one already seen > write content.
Are you guys fucking retarded or downers or something?
Thanks for your feedback Damen.
Do web masters still exist? I thought they were an extinct creature from the 90’s. I certainly have no desire to be one though, I can assure you.
As for “how hard can it be to edit a .php and input the code you want?”
Well, quite hard indeed. The code I want looks nothing like the code that Wordpress is built on.
As for your first stage, second stage nonsense, that’s a jolly nice recipe for a little blog with a few thousand visitors, but when you’re dealing with tens of thousands per hour, then it doesn’t quite cut the mustard. Wordpress plugins vary drastically in quality, and more often than not are not suitable for such a busy site. not only that, but they simply don’t exist for my needs so I have to write my own, and that’s when Wordpress shows its true colours. It is a nightmare to work with.
Enjoy your nice little world of small time site development though. I’m sure you’ll do well in that market.
I totally agree. Wordpress is great for small sites, which is why I use it. It’s dead easy to get off the ground, build themes, and generally run a little blog/small site. It can even deal with quite large sites, but when it comes to plugin development for very complex projects, it’s a complete pain in the arse. Functions have a non existant naming convention and often don’t return what you expect, and the documentation is definitely an area that needs work.
For most users though, you’ll never know of the downsides to Wordpress, but for any plugin developers that come from a true development background, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.