So it’s end of the second day of WordPress and I have to say that I’m still kind of leery of the whole thing. This site has been a WordPress site twice before and we’ve stopped being a WordPress site twice before. Once for hacking and once for a dead database. Both times we lost a significant amount of posts, which will be reflected in the archives when I get to those years.
This time around I’m kind of spoiled by Joomla. Joomla’s content management system made you work for everything. Design your own pages. Make your own modules. Update your own menus. You had total control over every aspect of your site and how it looked. WordPress? Not so much. We’re using someone else’s theme that I slapped together literally in an hour (oooh, I added a logo), because I have no time right now to start from scratch either with Joomla or a new content management system.
It took a couple of hours to get used to being back on WordPress. They’ve taken out a lot of features. Sorting by category and blogrolls, for instance, are things of the past. Again, coming from the total control of Joomla, where I could do what I wanted, that’s kind of a pain. Our “friends” links will be up again in a day or two because of it.
The biggest change around here will probably be in the way I sort things. Since WordPress is a blogging system and I write about nearly everything when I’m in the mood to write, we’re going to be breaking my writing down into three categories: Ratfarts! (personal stuff), Comics Talk (updates to my comic/general industry talk) and Site Updates (if I need to explain this one, well, umm…). Sometimes they’ll overlap. Sometimes categories will be empty for that month. It’s not the end of the world. As I add back the old blogs, I’ll be sorting them in that format. We’ll also be sorting by year and by month. Just so you can whittle down to what you really want to see or avoid things that bore you.
I’m also backing up every post as I release it, in said order. Like I said, I don’t trust this place yet. Time may heal all wounds but nothing will restore my trust in WordPress. We’re here because we have to be. If it works this time, it works, but I’m not losing things because WordPress has confirmed my fears.
With that, I have a comic to get out so I’m off to another hour of lettering before bed.
Jim
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