you have saved me from making new websites time and time again.

mad props.

2/16/2006 6:20:11 AM

completely agree, and i'm finding more reasons to like it all the time.
The new release of 2.0 is great with a lot of backend improvements, including built-in ability to upload and style pictures and media (previously available via plugins) and a pretty nice WYSIWYG editor (with full access to the HTML still, of course). The installation and upgrading processes are insanely easy, and customization is easy and straightforward.

But the plug-ins really make it great.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins#Plugins_by_category

I use the excellent G2WP (Gallery2 to WordPress) plugin to fully integrate my Gallery2 inside my wordpress site/blog -
download - http://wpg2.ozgreg.com/index.php/Main_Page
example - http://thalions.com/blogs/joe/wp-gallery2.php

Then you can use G2Image to easily pull thumbnails from your Gallery2 installation into your blog with links to the G2 page
http://g2image.steffensenfamily.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

And I recently found (i.e. yesterday) some good Video plugins so you can easily put Google Video or YouTube videos into your blog.
Extreme Video Plugin - http://www.rossgerbasi.com/2006/01/21/extreme-video-plugin-20/
example - http://thalions.com/blogs/joe/archives/31


The number of available themes is crazy. You can almost surely find a theme that fits your general need, then modify it to your specific liking.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes/Theme_List
http://www.alexking.org/index.php?content=software/wordpress/themes.php
http://themes.wordpress.net/.



not to mention, the author of the Extreme Video Plug-in noted yesterday that he plans on using some of Yahoo's recently introduced AJAX UI Library into some more WP plugins. Those will be hot -
http://www.rossgerbasi.com/2006/02/14/yahoo-ui-library/

[Edited on February 16, 2006 at 6:47 AM. Reason : Yahoo]

PLUS, if you use the embedded Gallery2, you can still use all of Gallery's plugins/modules, like the "Map Module" - http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:Modules:Map
Mine is still under construction (experimenting with colors, routes, etc), but the functionality is still there and works great inside WP.
http://www.thalions.com/blogs/joe/wp-gallery2.php?g2_view=map.ShowMap

[Edited on February 16, 2006 at 6:50 AM. Reason : maps]

2/16/2006 6:45:26 AM

blogs are so emo
and for that matter, hearts are even more emo

-ZiP!-

2/16/2006 9:01:39 AM

Sweet. Now I can put the journal script I downloaded into design I downloaded and make a truly original site!

2/16/2006 9:42:30 AM

Quote :

"Sweet. Now I can put the journal script I downloaded into design I downloaded and make a truly original site!"

Who said anything about wanting an original site? For the vast majority of people, CMS is overkill and ground-up redesigns are simply not worth it (or beyond their capabilities). WP gives an easy update method, even if you aren't blogging, and easy customizability.

2/16/2006 10:03:27 AM

no shit. if you want a "truly original site", more power to you. You can spend a month creating a design and implementing a backend.
But for Aunt Nelly who wants to put up some pics of her new baby and spout meaningless drivel about her life to the 1/2 dozen people in the world who care, then WP (or similar engine) is the way to go. Within minutes she can have a fully functional, nicely styled, standards compliant site with more functionality that your site will ever have.

2/16/2006 10:08:33 AM

I use wordpress for our sailing team's site.

It works perfectly.

2/16/2006 9:28:15 PM

I'll have to look into this.

2/16/2006 9:36:56 PM

meh i don't use it for blogs. i'd rather just go ahead and slit my wrists and die - that'd be so much more emo than having a blog.

this is for sites i don't want to make original - they're like goddamn weeds, popping up everywhere - everyone wants a site nowadays for this, that, and the other.

2/16/2006 9:41:30 PM