Anniversary
One year ago, almost exactly (if I had remembered this on Monday), I started using WordPress. I’m very glad I ventured from the old and familiar environment of Perl in the form of Greymatter to the scary world of databases and PHP in the form of WP. WP has been very easy to use, customise and tweak. After the theme system came in 1.3 it’s been a breeze to upgrade (some people complain about the frequent upgrades. I don’t) especially now that I remember to “document” my core tweaking.
I’m too tired to write anything grandiose. I love WP. I’ve never had any problems with it (well, little error messages or layout-gone-crazy just don’t make me shake in my boots unlike some, it seems).
Happy anniversary!
That’s funny… when I first started blogging (without doing it on my own with html – no commenting, of course) I also used Grey Matter. I really liked it but thought that it was fairly limited.
Then I moved to B2 and liked it, but found that Movable Type would do more so I movabled to that. However, I hated the constant rebuilding of the pages that would sometimes time out in the middle of rebuilding, and that’s how I came upon Word Press because it was the “next generation” of B2 (which I had liked).
It’s the simplest yet with all the plugins now, however, I probably know even less about it because of the format.
But I like it as much as you do, just don’t understand it as well as you :). Happy Anniversary!
I also started “blogging” in HTML at first. Then I learned about this blogging thing (I think) and started looking for a tool. I hadn’t stumbled across PHP or databases yet so I was trying to look for a tool that works without them. That’s why I started with Greymatter.
When I learned that the host of my hostess didn’t like Greymatter, I started looking for a replacement. I tried installing TextPattern which I didn’t get working because of a tilde in the address (I had a stupid re-direct domain so the absolute path included a ~). Then I started with MT. I don’t know why I didn’t like it. I think I installed it ok and everything, but maybe I had got enough of the rebuilding with GM.
Then I luckily found WP and haven’t looked elsewhere since. Love at first sight.