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Yet Another Wordpress User

After dealing with spam again tonight and facing the prospect of reworking my captcha and adding user registration, I completely gave up on the whole site-from-scratch thing and have replaced it with the Wordpress site you’re looking at now. I found this process to be very simple and straightforward, and I especially liked all the import options (in my case, I got the articles from my old RSS feed). After spending about an hour changing settings, adding plugins, and tweaking CSS, I think that I’ll be able to live with it.

Unfortunately I was too lazy to rescue comments, so they’re all gone. We’ll have to see how commenting goes; right now I have to approve comments except by registered users, so at least the spam won’t be showing up on the site (just my inbox).

A couple of thoughts about Wordpress:

• My favorite part is definitely the admin experience. The admin pages have a beautiful layout with a very nice color scheme, rounded corners, and AJAX-y goodness. The admin panel is also very powerful and extremely intuitive; all in all, I love it.
• I think that the weakest part of Wordpress is actually the themes. I spent a ton of time trying to find one I liked and eventually settled for a moderately okay one. People who write Wordpress themes need to be introduced to two important concepts: (a) It is not an efficient use of space to only use the middle fifth of the monitor (see this crap-tacular example), and (b) An 10pt serif font is awful for a blog. People have big monitors these days, and readability is important.

Alright, I have to go to bed right now. I have been working on this instead of school work, which unfortunately leaves me with a register allocator to finish writing by the end of the day tomorrow :(

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