What's the mistake he references?
Dear WordPress
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Re: Dear WordPress
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks pretty nice on my box. Maybe you need to configure your font settings?
That's because he use Chrome on Windows, who doesn't render webfont well due to the usage of GDI instead of DirectWrite in the Windows version: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692
You're right. It even looks better on IE8. http://i.imgur.com/xrhfJGp.png
Here's a screenshot of nightly with a similar issue. http://i.imgur.com/HP02e5b.png
Even this, with the font stripped out looks better http://i.imgur.com/6KB2iuG.png
Re: Dear WordPress
#23Dear Matt, Could you please use any font other than Source Sans Pro[1]? It looks terrible on at least one major desktop operating system.[2] [1] https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro [2] http://i.imgur.com/9gOuTdH.png
Looks like you need to turn on ClearType.
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#24Wordpress is growing popular, but at the cost of losing quality developers. Simply because its codebase has become horrible, memory-heavy and bloated. I understand Wordpress gives you the tools to build a CMS portal, etc. But it doesn't do one thing very well and tries to do multiple things pretty averagely. For example (this has been cited before) implementing pagination on the posts page and pages themselves is hor…
I think the CMS selection depends on the kind of organization that will be ultimately using and maintaining the site.
For small groups/projects like student organizations and blogs with multiple editors, Wordpress can be a godsend. I was part of a student organization that needed an informational website with a blog component so I quickly set up a Wordpress site that 5-10 people used to populate the site with content.
As an aside, the individual who took over my role as web admin has since moved the site to Dreamweaver :( The older members of the org are frustrated that they can't individually add content to the site anymore and the org is transitioning the site back to Wordpress in the fall.
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#25I can appreciate what wordpress has achieved over the years, and what it has helped to create. But the current wordpress code base is a nightmare to work with, and doesn't scale well. Having said that, it is an excellent blogging platform and CMS, but this is something that is usually forgotten, resulting in it finding itself shoehorned into the most inappropriate places.
I get the feeling that those who "like" wordpress are either heavily invested in the platform or can't read code. Simpler, more specialised blogging engines are so beautifully designed, I don't see myself ever wanting to work with Wordpress again.
If other specialized blogging engines had one-tenth the extensibility that WP has, then I could see myself switching. But when you have hundreds of thousands of people willing to write plugins for free or very little money that integrate with the most complex payment systems and third-party APIs, you tend to deal with the crappy core code of the main module.
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#26What's the mistake he references?
I don't have the link and I'm reading this on the go, but Matt did some ad stuff that wasn't very kosher once upon a time. I seem to remember it was vaguely black hat seo and got Wordpress thunder banned on google for a minute.
That's just off the top of my head.
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#27A little tip :
I know static page generators are more cool and nerdy but there is a wordpress plugin called really static[0]. This plugin can generate static html files from your site. It can save html pages on some folder or upload via ftp.You can install wordpress on your laptop or some password protected sub-domain, buy some nice looking theme, start publishing and enjoy having best of the both worlds...
Re: Dear WordPress
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's because he use Chrome on Windows, who doesn't render webfont well due to the usage of GDI instead of DirectWrite in the Windows version: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692
You're right. It even looks better on IE8. http://i.imgur.com/xrhfJGp.png Here's a screenshot of nightly with a similar issue. http://i.imgur.com/HP02e5b.png Even this, with the font stripped out looks better http://i.imgur.com/6KB2iuG.png
Are you on XP? (I ask because it looks like you don't have any anti-aliasing on).
If you adjust your cleartype settings (or turn it on in XP) it will look a bit more normal.
Re: Dear WordPress
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
svbtle is very nice and clean
You can easily get the Svbtle theme in Wordpress by using wp-svbtle: http://wp-svbtle.themeskult.com/
I don't like the Svbtle style but I don't think you should suggest using something that stole the design and is not condoned by the original author.
It's so funny how outraged hacker news becomes when a startups design is stolen but when dcurtis made svbtle a private platform they were all to happy to have people steal the design.
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#30I had the privilege of meeting the (significantly) lesser known co-founder of Wordpress Mike Little[1] a week or so ago and this seems an appropriate time to mention what really genuine and nice guy he seemed to be. Clearly he hasn't quite received the same notoriety as Matt and it really seemed funny to introduce him as the "Co-founder of Wordpress" yet very few people actually knew of him :)