Mash Note: WordPress

Brian Dillard, Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 4:41 pm

I'm only one day into building out our new WordPress templates and I'm already in love with the venerable blogging platform. Why? Two reasons so far:

1. Templates can be managed as files: No more dealing with a clumsy web interface for the maintenance of PHP and CSS templates. Now, I can edit files in my environment of choice - a.k.a. TextMate - and FTP them up when I'm done.
2. Posts can be edited as raw HTML: Sure, in Typepad, you can switch back and forth between WYSIWYG mode and raw HTML mode. But each time you do, mysterious additional HTML - usually a bunch of cruft that totally ruins your formatting - appears. With WordPress, you can disable WYSIWYG mode altogether for your account. Sure, the resulting editing window still tries to do your thinking for you, but in a far less obtrusive way than most such "tools." You can write raw HTML and expect your markup to survive the publishing process more or less intact.

The interface doesn't seem to like Firefox 3 much. I'm sure I'll tear my hair out a few times as I complete our templates. But based on one day's work, I'm happy to be moving to a platform that's geared toward developers rather than business users.

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