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!

I was reading a blog the other day about blogging (go figure) and I was reading about a different opinion than I have about how important commentators are.

I was going to link her on up here for your review because what works for me may not for you and so on.

Different opinions at the very least cause you to think.

This blogger explained that commentators only represent about 1% of your traffic on the whole and therefore are not important. As I am sure you have read, I think Blog Comments And Commentators Are Important.

So, why didn’t I give her that link?

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Web 2.0! The salvation of us all! Yeah, ok, whatever.

We have all heard the hype of Web 2.0. Even people who barely know what a browser is have heard that buzz phrase.

What is Web 2.0?

What makes it so great?

Can you define Web 2.0? Is it outlined like HTML 4.0 is?

Let’s cut through the hype and get down to just what it is.

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What happens if I start a blog and I don’t keep at it?

That is what a friend of mine asked me. The answer I had for her was the same one I stole from this User Friendly Comic… “your blog will just become a clog and sit there.”

So?

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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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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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What lead to this particular babble is a series of comments on this blog and another that I was involved in.

Unfortunately, the comments I was a part of are mostly off topic, so I won’t link them here. (There really are times I am such a bad blogger.) The other blog, however is wordpress

If you are looking at this site anywhere near the time I published this article you are probably laughing at me.

It would seem I do not follow my own advice and I certainly do not have a viable marketing project going.

Am I a total idiot? Am I a poseur?

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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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