Wordpress is Impressive
Six hours.
That’s the amount of time between downloading WordPress and having it (almost) seamlessly integrated into the website. Normally when I download any development packages, I try to budget a good deal of time to simply ramp up on new code, architecture and design. Even for a popular package like WordPress, it’s hard not to have some type of painful anticipation on how well things are going to go when you delve under the hood. My guess is that it’s somewhat akin to a Toyota mechanic who is getting their first shot looking at a new Prius- beautiful, with a possibility of electrocution.
Needless to say, rather than easing my way into WordPress, I immediately slapped in four plugins and pulled an Edward Scissorhands on the default template. The plug-ins didn’t crash in horrific fashion or throw exceptions, which is always a good sign of a mature application. At the same time, the PHP templates were pleasantly easy to modify due to the intuitive organization and readability of code. No electrocution after all - most excellent.
The only misstep was Akismet, which was temporarily giving problems about not having an API key even after I created an account. Apparently, it was just an issue of waiting for the key to propagate on the server, as the key worked fine an hour later.
So, for any coders or business types out there that are looking for blogging software or a blog platform to use- for what it’s worth, WordPress has my vote.
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