Comments on: I Hate WordPress

By: hermit

hermit — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:33:19 +0000

I’ve just started using WordPress, and it’s driving me insane; it screws up pictures by degrading their quality to a point I’d really rather not display them, it pointblank refuses to linebreak, and if I want to make any changes other than very basic ones I have to start hacking abstruse text files. And this is 2.7 for crying out loud. Maybe it gives the geeks a stiffy, but I was under the impression that Web 2 was for us ordinary mortals who just wanted to join in a little.

I don’t think I’ve ever come across such frustratingly obtuse software – which, as a Windows user, is saying something. I don’t want to know or care about weird technologies under the hood, any more than I want to have to learn electronics to work my washing machine. Just make the fecking thing work and spare me the programmer’s wet dream, please. Pretty bloody please.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:00:24 +0000

Then why still using WP? Why not MT?

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:38:05 +0000

Deuts – I moved to WordPress around 1.5, but I’d say that only around 2.3 has it actually hit the point where it fulfills all my needs out of the box. It’s come a very long way since I wrote this, but I’d stand by these comments any day. The support community still has issues, and the templating API (because it’s hardly a templating “language”) has never been particularly intuitive.

That said: I’d recommend it to people almost without question these days, which isn’t necessarily something I’d have done at the 1.2 era.

By: deuts

deuts — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:24:19 +0000

So I guess you’re loving wordpress now huh.. :D coz you’re using it. Anyway, this was posted ages ago. :D

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:10:02 +0000

Amen! I hate it too… In fact I typed in I hate wordpress in google just to find this site.

What a dumb dumb thing it is… I’m going to try experimenting with a bunch of other stuff.. luckily I have a few domains to mess around with.