“Goodbye and good luck to all”

  • I’m tired of WordPress. I don’t know enough to make it work the way I want it to.

    I think I’ll just focus on my studies for now. I’ll be back some other day, probably with my college dimploma in Computer Science ??

    @podz: Thank you for everything you did. I understand that you did everything you could despite your busy schedule. It was rather pathetic, but I realize that it was all you could do.

    @wordpress: You will lose out in the blog tool race. Unless you come up with something more non-php-trained-user friendly.

    @the rest of the forum: Spare the wonderful thoughts on what I have said above. I know you don’t give a damn about what I do or what I don’t.

    @nuclear Moose and TechGnome: Perhaps your return will be sooner than mine and maybe saying this will make me look foolish when you do, but I am joining you in your exhile and in my own sort of way making a stand against the shortcomings of WordPress.
    —

    “…And I don’t want the world to see me,
    ‘Cause I don’t think that they’d understand,
    When everything’s made to be broken;
    I just want you to know who I am…”
    -Goo Goo Dolls (Iris)

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  • This seems like the right place to say that I am beginning to look at WP as a teaching tool ?? After the fiasco of trying to install it on a host that didn’t have the right specs, I now have a host that has the right specs AND they install it. I started with a premade template (Mike Little’s Journalized) and then poked around changing the colors to fit the rest of my website. Then I poked around moving things from side to side and top to bottom, changing the fonts, changing the way some of the links behaved and looked. I got so giddy with knowledge that I started up a message board and started poking around on that! I’m so darned happy with WP for so many reasons, but not the least of them teaching me a few things. I even did something Podz warned not to just to see what happened (I clicked “upgrade” to go to 1.5 just to see what happened WITHOUT BACKUPS since I didn’t have much content at the time). So if you stick with it you might learn something. I’m sort of baffled to read that the OP is persuing studies related to computer work. If he throws his teddy in the corner over something like WP, what’s it going to be like for him out in the real world?

    Sorry for the ramble, but thanks to WP for teaching me something. ??

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    RobertPlantFan is right. I knew nothing of PHP or MySQL before I installed WP, and now I know enough to correctly edit theme files, plugins, and core files. WP is a great tool. Stick with it, and it will teach you all that you need to know.

    True, but then again, most users never asked to learn php, mysql, css or html. nor do they plan to learn these at any point. they just want to run a blog.

    as much as i enjoy hacking wp, and as much as the support forums are helpful to code unsavvy people, wp is still very far from being the right tool for said code unsavvy people.

    …does someone need a transplant…?
    did someone die.?
    this all sounds so matter of life and death ..
    hmmm
    m

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