Using WordPress
So, I’ve used WordPress before, as a simple forum for updates for the Game Manager project, and I figured that making my own webpage with it wouldn’t be too difficult.
Well, I wasn’t wrong, thankfully. Within a matter of hours (including an hour or so for lunch and about 45 minutes or so of reading Wicked) I had a website up and running, easy as can be. Granted, I’m not finished at all, but I was rather impressed with the simplicity of how everything in WP is done. I’ve done some work with my own botched creations, and I’ve also done work with other CMS systems, but I really think WP is on the right track for easy functionality.
The easiest thing for me to do was to re-order my Pages. I’m sure other CMS systems have the same sort of functionality, but all I had to do was change a value in a dropdown and click “Update.” Awesome! With that, I can easily create a “Main” page for a section that already exists, and I don’t even have to think about how to rework the links and the url rewriting. If I’m being honest, though, I really do enjoy url rewriting, now that I know how to do it.
I’ve always shied away from using applications such as WP or Drupal because, as a developer, I feel like I’m constrained into how the system works, rather than how I think it should work. However, running a WP site, even for one day, has me itching to break into the code and figure out how everything integrates, rather than cringing at my inability to rework things myself. There’s definitely a lot going on here, and I’m glad I’ve made an effort to use this system.