What’s up with wordpress?
My old blog was a blogspot blog, and while using blogger to write posts I had very few complaints. But when it came to setting up this blog I plumped for WordPress, mainly on reputation; wherever I turned I would read phrases along the lines of “while not a full-featured publishing platform, Blogger does offer an impresive, easy-to-use interface for the novice blogger,” and damn me if I was going to be labelled a novice!
I have, by and large, though, been very impressed with WordPress. As a front-end developer, I particularly like the fact that it very rarely gets confused about what to do when you do something (eg delete some html which leaves some tags unexpectedly unclosed) that woudl drive Blogger potty. And the new version of the admin interface (from about version 2.6 onwards) is a staggering improvement on the old version and on Blogger.
However it has one irritating feature: it constantly breaks.
Since upgrading I’ve had the wysiwyg text editor break several times (fixed by deleting and then recopying in the wp-includes folder), saving posts broken once (fixed by overwriting thw wp-admin folder), and for a long period of time couldn’t log out of admin (no idea how this is fixed – it just seemed to go away of its own accord). It’s immensely frustrating (though not frustrating enough to cause me to abandon wordpress).
It’s probably a flaw in the wordpress automatic upgrade plugin, but I’m loathe to abandon that too as it takes the pain out of making tea, so to speak. Though I can’t help thinking it may be a false economy as in the end I have to manually overwrite files anyway.
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