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Written by Scrivs on September 23, 2005
Greg Storey lays it on the WordPress default GUI in Yugo (where he comes up with these names I have no idea) and I can’t really blame him. We use WordPress extensively here and if Colin hadn’t switched to another them for the admin section I probably would have gone insane. He also touches on an interesting point about the “battle” between backend developer and frontend designers.
Yes I know WordPress is free and I am friends with Matt Mullenweg so I am not promoting the downfall of WordPress. I am promoting the need for it to be prettier because that’s what it deserves.
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September 23rd, 2005 at 4:00 pm
Does it really matter that much what an admin backend looks like? I never worked with WP very much (I use Pivot myself) but recently I started hacking into WP because I wanted to port some plugins I wrote for Pivot that turned out to be extremely useful to WP in order to make it available for a larger audience. (it’s an anti-comment-spam plugin and most needed: an anti-trackbackspam plugin).
I’m really impressed with WP both in terms of what it can do but also with the plugin API. It just rocks a llama’s ass. I cranked out two perfectly working plugins that include database tables and admin screens in just two coding sessions.
I’ve used MT for over a year and I really never liked it. It felt slow, sluggish and not very flexible and it’s written in PERL which happens to be a language I wouldn’t even go and hack around in if people gave me cash or pointed a gun at me (well maybe then I would…;) ). Also MT is the worst when it comes to available spam-protection plugins.
Nah, WP is really the best on the block if you ask me. Ugly admin interface or not. I like Pivot as well and I’m actively developing for it in order to make it better and better but honestly WP is very nice. I’d trade Pivot over WP maybe but MT? I actually dumped that in favour of Pivot
p.s. Paul… do you read your mail?
September 23rd, 2005 at 4:06 pm
I sure do read all the mail I get, but defintiely can’t immediately respond to every email that asks me to review their site for inclusion into the network.
September 23rd, 2005 at 4:16 pm
Thanks, at least now I know you got it
September 23rd, 2005 at 5:37 pm
Just thought I’d let you know that your description for this blog is still the default “Just another WordPress Blog” which it certainly isn’t. =)
September 23rd, 2005 at 6:51 pm
And Khaled slams it back to Greg
http://www.brokenkode.com/archives/wordpress-shuttle-update/
September 23rd, 2005 at 8:51 pm
I’ve been fine with WordPress since Steve Smith’s release of Tiger Admin. One thing I just cannot get with is the Kubrick theme. I don’t know if it is the wide iPod look, the coding, or both. I just to ball it up and flush it down the toilet. Anyway, I’m glad to see better things being in the working all the time. Khaled and team, make us proud!
September 26th, 2005 at 11:22 am
One important thing to think of when talking about the admin UI for any weblog platform is for when people hang WP-powered (or MT-powered, or TxP-powered) websites over to clients for them to update. WP isn’t just used for regular personal sites, but for massive non-technical-person-updating corporate websites as well.
September 26th, 2005 at 11:22 am
*hand
September 27th, 2005 at 12:56 am
And that’s wy it’s taking us 8 months do do properly
September 29th, 2005 at 5:21 pm
Just to say Yugo is name for Serbian car for more than 10-20 years.
November 8th, 2005 at 4:14 am
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November 24th, 2005 at 11:46 am
khaled, I think the same, WP isn’t designed for everyone. Building personal sites baseing on WP – it’s like trying to shoot down swallow with ballistic rocket.
December 25th, 2005 at 8:56 am
I’ve used MT for over a year and I really never liked it. It felt slow, sluggish and not very flexible and it’s written in PERL which happens to be a language I wouldn’t even go and hack around in if people gave me cash or pointed a gun at me (well maybe then I would…;) ). Also MT is the worst when it comes to available spam-protection plugins.
Nah, WP is really the best on the block if you ask me. Ugly admin interface or not. I like Pivot as well and I’m actively developing for it in order to make it better and better but honestly WP is very nice. I’d trade Pivot over WP maybe
January 20th, 2006 at 2:34 am
I’ve used MT for over a year and I really never liked it. It felt slow, sluggish and not very flexible and it’s written in PERL which happens to be a language I wouldn’t even go and hack around in if people gave me cash or pointed a gun at me (well maybe then I would…;) ). Also MT is the worst when it comes to available spam-protection plugins.