I’ve spent time on and off over the long weekend playing with WordPress, of which this Weblog is the result. (I don’t know that I have all that much to say, but I’ve missed the software side of Weblogging.) So far, I’m very impressed.
Even though it’s a server-side tool that you have to set up for yourself (unlike, say, Blogger), WordPress really does take only five minutes to install, just as they claim. Of course, it requires a bit more background knowledge than something like Radio UserLand, but that little bit of extra background knowledge is rewarded with a far more elegant, transparent, effective, and standards-compliant publishing tool. It includes everything you need for comments, trackbacks, site search, and Weblog rolls (no more HaloScan, Google, or Blogrolling), and it throws in all sorts of little extras like XFN. And it seems as though it can be used painlessly by relative novices while still giving experts all of the power and control they could want.
WordPress seems to have pretty healthy community support, which means (among other things) that there are many themes available. I’ve mutilated Mike Little‘s Journalized Winter theme for this Weblog, for which I thank him.
This has really been fun in a playing-with-blocks sort of way. Let’s see if I can come up with anything else to say so that I can keep playing.
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