WordPress (as performed by Cameo)

Back in the days of DOS I was often lax in registering shareware. When I setup my old BBS that changed. Many of my regulars were programmers. At one time I – a used bookshop owner – new more software wizards than any other species of human (wish that were true nowadays). So I started registering my shareware or opting to not using it.

I appreciate the folks who’ve make my use of a computer and the web easier or more pleasurable: Nick Bradbury for TopStyle, Cliff Thornton for ClipMate, Eric Fookes for NoteTab, many others.

I should’ve known that when my mentions of WordPress drew Matthew Mullenweg to make a couple of comments and suggestions I’d find myself sucked into using it. Really I was very surprised. Matt’s own weblog, Photo Matt, is one of those site you visit to just admire and wish you could do that.

So I copied my first WordPress installation from the site that it isn’t appropriate for to a weblog I’ve had running without announcing for a couple of weeks. I pulled up the admin screen and all was as it should be. A change to the new path and the site was running under WP as well as it had under MT.

Aside from making a couple of trivial changes to the three-column layout from Alex King’s site I haven’t worked at customizing the site. Seems wiser to wait until 1.2’s stable release is out.

I wish the categories were sorted by name, not sequence of creation. Isn’t this the sort of thing PHP does in its sleep?

Scanty, scattered documentation is a problem. WordPress needs one of those hardcore fans that genuinely enjoy maintaining a FAQ or comprehensive docs. Given the nature of the project you can’t expect the developers to take time away from coding. MT’s forum regulars have certainly contributed mightily to MT’s success. miniBB isn’t the equal of (ahem) real forum software. Pity since searching a support forum has answered 99% of my questions with some software.

Can I use %category% in a permalink? Everywhere I tried searching the percent signs were stripped away. Don’t you think it’ll add depth of meaning if I can add “medical/” to “penis-explodes.”

The Search Hilite plug-in assumes that my site is in /home/public_html/site. Nope, it is a multi-hosted domain. It is othersite/public_html/site.

Haven’t been able to save my GMT offset (minor) or force moderation on all comments (major). I don’t know if is a bug in the software, which is OK since I’m running a beta. Or if one of the many files needs to be chmod’d since I moved them.

I was happy enough to make a donation. I’m sure the WordPress developers are delighted to have an elevated weblog like Sex is Funny powered by their software.

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