Wordpress experiences so far.
Friday, November 23rd, 2007These are my initial impressions to using Wordpress, the blog engine I’m now using for the site.
First some background; I’ve done web development before, so this is an area I’m comfortable with. Honestly, though, the only skills you need are the abilities to edit a text file and to use FTP.
Installation was actually really easy. Download the application from Wordpress, edit a config file, upload everything, view a installation wizard on the web, and it’s up. So, getting hold of a basic site was really very simple, certainly compared to other blog engines and cms’s I’ve tried
What’s really nice, though, is the ability to add themes and plugins. Themes are visual ’stationary’ for the site, and there is a master site which has loads of themes to choose from. just download a theme’s zip file, and unpack it into a themes folder, and it’s ready to go. Plugins are about as easy, too; plugins provide some clever additions to the site. For example, I’m using the slickr plugin to show my flickr photos, and [reCAPTCHA] to keep spambots out of my comments.
