Monday, November 22, 2004, 7:39am
So I've changed the software that runs my site to WordPress. I haven't changed much really, just a small tweak to the way categories are listed. I use the default theme, haven't changed anything really, been busy looking at the new landscape. Stuff seems sort of fragmented, but here's what I've found:
- WordPress home
- WordPress FAQ
- (unofficial) WordPress FAQ
- WordPress Template Documentation
- WordPress Reference
- WordPress Developer Documentation
- WordPress Wiki
- WordPress Codex (I'm not so sure what this is, however, however it claims to be a collection of all documentation related to the WordPress project. To me, I think all the content here should be in the wiki. It took me a while to find this site and I find it's Working Toward Version 1.3 page a great insight into what to expect. However, it lacks all the other information that the other sites listed here have.)
- (unofficial) WordPress Plugins Database (see also the WordPress Wiki under plugin, WPHacks and ModsList)
WordPress also seems to suffer from comment spam on a greater magnitude than the previous software, Drupal. Rather than delete a dozen or more a day, I've installed CSPAM. So far, I've had it running for a week and no sign of spam. However, I'm pretty sure that if a comment is deemed spam, I don't even get emailed. That means any false positives will be totally unknown to me. Due to the nature of CSPAM, this will have slightly worse than normal repercussions.
Next on my list of things to do is change the look, and I will be using the WordPress Design Sandbox to do so. It allows me to rewrite a template without having to edit the PHP by hand and upload it to the server to see if the changes are what I want. Now I can edit the XHTML and CSS locally, get my site done as I want it, and than just migrate that to the PHP in WordPress on the server.