Some Complaints about WordPress

by Joshua Porter  |   May 10th, 2005  |  shortlink: http://bokardo.com/p/97

Here’s what I don’t like about WordPress:

  1. I don’t like that I have to weed out the pingbacks and the trackbacks in my comments. The template function comments_number() should contain the number of actual comments, not including the other two.
  2. I don’t like how my own installation of WordPress pings itself when I link to another post of mine.
  3. I don’t like how I have to update my .htaccess file just to add a page.
  4. I don’t like how I had to do some special modifications to my WP files to get the thing running right and now I’m afraid of how long it’s going to take to upgrade in the future. Sure, it takes the lead developer 3 seconds to upgrade but he’s not a “normal” user, now is he? How long does it take “normal” people?

If you’d like to rant (it made me feel better, even though the pain was from last night), please feel free.

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1.  Michal Migurski 12:43pm, Tue 10th, 2005

WordPress has a terrible plug-in architecture. I’ve been putting off updating the ReBlog WP plug-in for 2 months, because of a library conflict. It really shouldn’t be hard to fix, but I break out in hives every time I’m forced to spend time with WP’s internals.

Thank you.

2.  John Franklin 12:50pm, Tue 10th, 2005

Not to cover your blog with posts today…but hell yes. No’s 1 + 2 are particular bugbears. I was beginning to think that our problems were solely related to our exporting WordPress content to another interface. But now I see that’s not necessarily the case, if you’re having the same problems.

Hear hear.