I initially created my own blog software in Zope. I’ve been a long time fan of WordPress but now it’s starting to creak under the strain of…
- I want to do a re-design but because of all the tweaks I’ve done, I can’t just slap a new theme in and feel all sparkley and wonderful. There really should/could be a more object oriented way of hacking themes so that you can “update” without breaking your site, shouldn’t there?
- The WYSIWYG editor… has a few glitches… and it would be nice if someone added an “Options” screen so that I could easily choose which tools I wanted.
- My Blogroll is “useless”… to say the least … The last time I changed it was when Dom was cheeky enough to ask.
In short, I just want more. And more of it. More often.
p.s Every time I get this “I’m going to write my own blog tool” feeling, I list the things that I have forgotten about why WordPress is so good, the things I’d have to write from scratch, like RSS feeds, trackback, spam handling with Akismet, forgotten password routines, XMLRPC, widgets, miscellaneous plugins, a bookmarklet, file uploading…. bugger it… I’ve lost the will to write my ownblog software again, that list looks too boring. Maybe I should just roll my sleeves up and get on with hacking a new theme.
You’re right about both the positives and negatives of WordPress. The way themes are programmed is awful and makes me cringe compared to lovely MVC separated frameworks.
You’re so right on both counts. WordPress does suck in lots of ways, but oh dear me, it’s better than all the other ones I’ve tried. And speaking as a veteran of the “they’re all rubbish, I’ll write my own” camp there’s just no way that a single developer can build something that has all those features (and keep up with the new ones). And you just know that when *every* other blog out there as ‘MightyFoo’ support you’ll find it just as hard to summon up the enthusiasm to write your own MightyFoo module as you are right now in trying to write a new theme.