Art of Blogging

No.

Why not?

Because I spend all my time hacking and trying to fix WordPress. My God, this is some AWFUL FUCKING CODE!

WordPress devs should be ashamed.

Pure and simple.

I actually hate them and their arrogance.

I am sure there are at least a couple who are smart and educated and humble, but the whole project is just ruined by the mentality of the top end.

Why am I pissed off?

Well, let’s see…. to start with, in order for this blog to function the memory allowed to be used by php has had to been increased to 64 MB. That is OBSCENE. Good Fucking thing I have dedicated servers or my blog network would get me terminated from my hosting.

Next, I have spent a great deal of time figuring out which plugins I need and how to use them. In one fell upgrade, most of them no longer work. Many labor hours have been wasted.

Which ones? The good ones, of course. Why did they fail? Well, let’s take Ultimate Tag Warrior for a case point. UTW3 no longer works on WP because those COCKSUCKERS decided that it was a cool feature so they would make it native. Ok, all fine and good on a user side… we wont get into how WP just told ANOTHER of their best plugin developers to fuck off… but not only did they appropriate the tags, but they did a typically LAME job of it. The WP tag system is a toy compared to UTW. Something that worked and worked well no longer even functions. I am sure I could spend some time on the web and find out what lines of WP abortive code needs to be hacked out, but I am sorry, I am working here.

I don’t have the time to go through and fix these ASSHOLE’S lame work. I now MUST find an alternative to WordPress because in hubris they have ruined something that worked… yet again.

This is my site, my server, my network… and yet, I am forbidden from running php on my pages because the devs were too lazy to learn how to make kses work for them and they just hacked out all the ability for using things like CSS and php. Even worse, they say they “wont fix” it. what FLOORS me on kses is that they took the time to go through and hack kses all up so that it is a bastardized version and using the standard kses is just not a practical option anymore.

The themes system for WordPress is equally as disgusting as their code base.

I can’t even get this crap code to fake it and perform properly on the whole… and as soon as I do get one area working right, they release another “upgrade” that undoes all my previous work and the learning curve begins again. What the FUCK do these ass munches use for brains?

And to be clear, there are many good and skilled people giving their time for free to WordPress, but they are getting fucked over by the whole project. Frankly, you volunteers should all just stop. Give your time to someone who appreciates it and wont slice your throat as soon as you make something cool.

I applaud your efforts, but I think they are being wasted. It is your time though, so feel free to just think I am an idiot.

WordPress, you and Automattic can just kiss my ass. I am going to a far simpler framework so that I can spend my time actually producing content and not baby sitting this CRAP code.

I despise you for being part of what makes the web suck.

Even Microsoft doesn’t shit on their users this badly.

Hopefully, I will be able to migrate the work I have done here to whatever new engine I come up with, but there is no telling…. also, I have lost a lot of my interest in trying to help the blogging community because you all allow WordPress to do what they are doing.

I have a ton of stuff I wrote about plugins here in my queue, but never got to actually publish them because WordPress kept changing the rules and breaking stuff.

What a waste of time and effort.

Oh, for the record, I have a few dozen blogs on various networks that have been dealing with this WordPress nightmare. It is just not economically feasible for me to cope with this anymore.

There will be no more installs of WordPress on my network.

Fucking scrapers are easier to setup and maintain.

(Edited… Lesson to other bloggers: when you are angry and posting a rant, take a break from it before you hit publish. I am sorry for the two paragraphs that were originally here, they were inappropriate and just temper speaking. I apologize to those that saw what was here before I came to my senses and realized I was just being mean. Please notice that I am not removing a lot of other harsh and colorful words from this post.)

Sadly, my choice in blog engines has lead to the demise of my blogs.

I could rant like this for hundreds of pages, but I have work to do and no more time for WordPress. I am going to try and get my attitude together and then install Habari… I hope it isn’t junk.

Fuck you, Automattic!

Now that AdSense ads are actually running, I might as well explain how it was done.

Yeah, I know, these Howto’s are boring and not much fun. Trust me, they aren’t much fun to write either. Soon, I will be done with most of them and will get down to the real work.

They sure do take out a lot of the guess work on setting up a new blog though.

The purpose of this article is only to discuss the actual installation of this plugin on my WordPress MU site. Actually using the AdSense plugin is the subject of other articles.

The first one I am using is AdSense Deluxe. Unfortunately, their site seems to have been deleted, so I wont add a link. I did find a copy of this plugin for download that is a patched version. Unfortunately, I closed the window too soon and I lost the link. Sorry to the author of the patch. If you contact me, I will give you credit. I am such a bad blogger.

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I have mentioned comments are important and should be encouraged before, right? Pretty sure I have said something or another about the importance of comments and how to make you commentators feel special at least once or twice.

JohnTP has a list of the Top 5 WordPress Plugins That Help Increase Comments. I already use a couple on this list and agree with the rest.

I won’t go into a lot of detail here but I will run down the list quickly since they are all aimed at normal WordPress and I use WordPress MU (at least for now).

I will add a couple to the list though.

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Want a way to ping Google?

Yeah, I thought that would get your attention.

Go get the Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress plugin and put it in and within minutes, you can be pinging Google every time you make a post.

As a bonus, Yahoo! and MSN use the same sitemap structure. Anything that calls Search Engines to index your sites is a good SEO tool.

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Since I started using Ultimate Tag Warrior 3 I have been very pleased with this plugin for creating Tag Clouds.

Of course, there are things I would like to see added or changed, but I didn’t spend the time writing the plugin or its well laid out documentation. I have no complaints!

What I do have are a couple of pointers for its’ use for a new user.

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Tag Clouds according to Wikipedia: “A tag cloud (more traditionally known as a weighted list in the field of visual design) is a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Often, more frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized, while the displayed order is generally alphabetical… Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead to a collection of items that are associated with that tag.”

For a live example of them, take a look at the end of this post and also on the bottom of my sidebar.php.

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I will speak regularly on the importance of comments to a blog, I am sure. Today, I am going to keep it basic.

Comments are part of what makes blogs such a successful method to convey ideas. They are also a major part in that new-fangled Web 2.0 stuff.

Since blog comments are important, the people making them are important too, right?

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Simply put, a Trackback is a way for sites to link to each other automatically.

For an example of a Trackback in action, take a look at what happens when I link to this inspirational article on how nothing is impossible.

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WordPress has all sorts of plugins. Loads and loads of them. A lot of work is put into them, both on the development side and the utilization side. Usually, they are nice and slick.

Sometimes, that is just too much to hope for. Lately, it is even getting worse and only exacerbated by my using the WordPress MU engine.

Sometimes, a simple and crude hack is a better solution.

IMNHO, here is such a hack.

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The other night I decided I needed to have some php run from my posts now and again. I started doing the “normal” WordPress thing and messing with plugins and seeing which worked on WPMU and which did not.

This went typically… find the plugin, install the plugin, watch it blow up, remove the plugin, find the next one, modify WPMU configuration so it works… hack hack hack…

I finally found a couple that worked and I will write them up soon.

Except…

When I put the php code in my post and hit save, it just vanished.

O_o

My first thought was, “gee, how STUPID!”

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