It’s been about 2 years since a WordPress vulnerability required I disable and subsequently delete the original CCCP blog. It was too heavily modified to upgrade easily and the fact there were active ongoing attacks on the server was reason enough considering it was my hobby site.
But I’ve missed having somewhere to vent and link to in a less self-promoting fashion, so once more the CCCP rises, minus past posts, still using WordPress, albeit the latest, more easily upgraded version.
First impressions are not enough has changed. If anything, the default theme is worse and the lack of AJAX on the front end for basic tasks like comment and search surprised me.
The admin side has some improvements, most notably ease of upgrading plug-ins and WordPress itself, but overall I’m disappointed.
What does shock me is how many web “developers” use WordPress as the basis for larger projects.
If you’re a web designer, or a developer and want something easily extended to show a few simple products or services that you can spend most of your time styling up with CSS and images, then I’d say WordPress is fine.
But honestly, WordPress as the backbone for anything more involved is simply amateur hour and only goes to illustrate a very limited skills base not worthy of the developer title.
Rant over, I’ll make a theme when I have time and disappointed or not, it feels good to have a blog again – even though they’re supposedly out of fashion :p