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I haven't bothered since, and my latest blog at http://sherlockchrisblog.wordpress.com is just working with LaTeX markup. It's honestly a breath of fresh air.
i kind of wonder how did we get to this point. technologically speaking it's a disaster - terrible slow and insecure language as a platform for bad practices and codr base. i guess the answer is that technical excellence.is absolutely secondary to other concerns, but it's a concerning view.
i kind of wonder how did we get to this point. technologically speaking it's a disaster - terrible slow and insecure language as a platform for bad practices and codr base. i guess the answer is that technical excellence.is absolutely secondary to other concerns, but it's a concerning view.
What WP did right is to choose a platform supported EVERYWHERE (PHP, and not Ruby, Java or other crap only supported by few hosters), with a shitload of developers (again, the massive advantage of PHP), and packed the installation process in a way everyone from an 8-year old school kid to a 70-year old grandpa can handle (and literally, I have seen both!).
Also add in that wordpress.com's free hosting platform... well... surpasses any other blog solution by far.
A quarter of all websites includes a LOT of tiny websites nobody visits. How many users/hits/bandwidth of the web does WP get?
1. It was simple to use in an era where CMS meant 'large, complicated system that was tailored towards technies rather than the general population'. It didn't have a ton of features, but it was easy to use for the average blogger wanting to write posts without worrying about all the setup and coding and what not.
2. You could pretty much install it anywhere without minimum technical skill, since PHP and MySQL was (and is) supported by about 99.99% of shared hosts. Its newer competitors tend to be written in languages that are usually only available on a VPS or dedicated server.
3. It has a very large ecosystem for themes, plugins and other such things, so someone with no technical skill could find add ons for anything they wanted without needing to call in a developer or know PHP.
It's not the best written software and its not the best optimised for anything in particular, but it is one of the easiest to install and use for someone without a technical background, which is why it's so widespread.
i kind of wonder how did we get to this point. technologically speaking it's a disaster - terrible slow and insecure language as a platform for bad practices and codr base. i guess the answer is that technical excellence.is absolutely secondary to other concerns, but it's a concerning view.
It's full of horrendous things all the way down, but it just doesn't matter.