Continuing the theme of frustration for commercial software, the WordPress template, wpremix2 was supposed to work out of the box for what I wanted. However, I didn't read carefully enough through the support forums to realize the developer had more than he could handle. So it's full of bugs and I don't have time to fix them.
For example, I didn't realize until this morning that pingbacks don't display properly. This will be easily fixed once I find the proper PHP to put in the functions.php file. So I started reading up on WordPress. After about 30 minutes, I stopped and realized that I paid for something, so it should work. Why am I researching this? I bought it because the default wpremix actually looked almost exactly like what I was going to build myself. Apparently, I'm not saving time by going commercial. I wouldn't mind so much if the documentation was complete, but it's not. Unfortunately, it doesn't explain much.
So irregularities on this site you see are not intentional. I'll have to fix them by customizing another theme I think. I'm just not familiar enough with WordPress to start willy nilly replacing PHP code. Yet.
Things I want my site to do:
- Individual articles to display the associated tags along with the categories
- I'd like to have three columns front page and other pages to have two for an expanded story view
- I want to produce PDFs on the fly as I did with PostNuke
- I'd like top navigation to be automatically generated
- Integration of Twitter, last.fm, and Living Social Books (these won't be hard)
Some of these are no-brainers, some are handled with plug-ins, and some will require me taking more than 5 minutes here and there. However, I am kicking myself for not moving to WordPress much sooner.
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