WordPress – One Week and Counting
By Mitch Berg
My blog’s been converted over to WordPress for about a week now.
Observations:
- A week without comment spam – after years of getting crushed by it – is almost unthinkable.
- Speaking of comments – if you’re a former commenter who’s been scared off by the “login” thing, don’t be. After your first comment is moderated and accepted, you don’t have to get moderated anymore (unless you’re a jerk and I ban you).
- And being able to post something to the future and have it publish itself automatically, without my having to physically “publish” it, is soooo cool.
- On the other hand, something in the CSS code makes impossible to embed YouTube containers (for video) without hosing up the page layout. Ideas eagerly accepted.
That is all.
November 14th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
On KvM I had to take off the object tags off for you tube to work. On residual forces, it has always been fine with the regular code. I never figured it out.
Also, the WYSIWYG editor has a bad tendency to eat code for video and audio embeds.
It may have something to do with your post column width. If anything is too wide it does hose everything all up.
November 14th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
With no personal endorsement, something to look at:
http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/
November 14th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
I made it! Sweet Chocolate Mohammed, technology is NOT our enemy.
(Mitch may be rethinking his editorial policy)
November 15th, 2006 at 7:50 am
WordPress is hands down the best blogging app I’ve ever used, and I’ve used pretty much all of them by now.
I remember being shocked at how much faster it was than MT when I switched over… not having to do all those damn rebuilds was a real treat.
November 15th, 2006 at 7:54 am
Jay,
So far, I have to agree – although the Strom’s big database crash is sobering my enthusiasm a bit.
But as re the rebuilds – ooooh, yeah.
November 15th, 2006 at 7:55 am
Jay,
So far, I have to agree – although the Strom’s big database crash is sobering my enthusiasm a bit.
But as re the rebuilds – ooooh, yeah.
Still, I can see an upside to having all your MT files, built and read to go, in a big honking directory. Might make one’s blog a bit more bulletproof. I guess that speaks to the need to back up!