I was really taken by the acessibility of Wordpress a few years ago, but my innate graphic designer / website designer ‘need’ to make it ‘fit in’ with my website, forced me to eventually give it up and start the slog of building my own version.
That’s generally what developers do; find out that they don’t like a few of the features of the software they are using, then try and build it again – but better – and of course – ‘right’.
There’s nothing wrong with that.
If the developer community had no desire to solve problems and improve on what others had done before them… well, I wouldn’t be writing this from my bed, watching the snowfall outside my window, wondering if I’ll be able to get to work at all this week, and hoping I’ll have time during the daylight hours to go and soak up the beauty of it all.
I sidetrack.
The folks at Wordpress have improved their software massively in the last year. I’ve only taken a quick glance at the new interface for 2.7, but I would say it took a long hard slog to get it here. Which is entirely my point.
I still want Wordpress to fit in seamlessly with my website and I will probably still spend hours building my own theme, but at the end of it all – I haven’t spent the last year slogging away at a blogging platform (my own version remains ‘limited’) – no, I’ve been going to work and living my life, but ironically, I haven’t been blogging. Considering that the ‘need’ to blog was compelling enough to make me try and improve the way I was able to do it, I find it really disappointing that I’ve spent so few hours writing about the world.
So, I resolve.
I don’t want to slog at blogging. I care about having the thought and writing it down. I *can* leave the tool to someone else. So I will.
I wrote this lying in bed, on my iPhone, using the Wordpress app.
