Apr162007

Words about WordPress

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I have been up to my eyeballs in WordPress lately. And I just want to get a few things off my chest.

Theme support is awesomeboat

The amount of customization permitted by WordPress is amazing now. Even before adding plug-ins, you can do a lot of things design-wise. I don’t know when someone added all these hooks for different templates based on filename and things like query_posts()but they are very welcome.

Stop releasing these damn 0.0.1 updates

Every other week there’s a new WordPress security patch. It’s a real pain to backup, cross my fingers and overwrite all these files. Last time I updated a site, I got my ass kicked because of Mac OS X’s tendency to replace folders rather than merge them (not WordPress’ fault).

Fuck you, Akismet

Yes, Akismet is the amazing savior when it comes to comment spam. Every time I load up the admin page, Akismet is sitting there smugly telling me that it’s my lucky day and thank god I have it installed because it has stopped a stunning total of 12 spam comments. Akismet, I specifically told you that 8 of those comments were not spam. You are not allowed to count them in your amazing tally of miracles performed.

Dammit, Ultimate Tag Warrior

Another release, another typo that can be fixed with a one liner. If the “Tidy Tags” functionality of Ultimate Tag Warrior version 3.14159265 isn’t working for you: line 483 of ultimate-tag-warrior-core.php needs to be changed to:

$tagidstr .= $tagid->tag_id . ', ';

UTW is a great plug-in but seeing careless little things slip through kind of hurt my brain.

Also? The default admin theme still sucks.

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karan

Point Upgrades: Install Instant Upgrade. Works reasonably well. On the one hand, I’m frustrated too by the bi-weekly security patches they had recently, but on the other it’s good to know they get the security issues patched reasonably quickly.

Admin theme: I’m using NiceAdmin these days… it’s not too different to the standard, but is a little easier on the eyes. Tiger Admin is also nice, but I think everyone’s fingers-crossed waiting for Broken Kode’s Shuttle project to be fully implemented.

I’m up to 20,952 spam now =|
Jack

I’m not sure why I have such a low spam count. It might be because my comments form isn’t very accessible and can’t be used without javascript (a thing that spam bots still lack).

Scratch that. I just posted a comment from Lynx and it works fine. Maybe you are just a horrible person and spammers want to punish you, Karan.

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