June 2, 2013
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My feeble attempt at WordPress
I created a blog here.
So far I’m not at all impressed with WordPress. It’s clunky and stupid. They show you themes, and you choose a free one, and you still end up with the default plain one. The editor window doesn’t have a font selector. I tried posting with photos and it told me “Unauthorized” with no explanation.
But tomorrow will be another day.
Comments (24)
yeah. lots of difficulties such as what you mention. : / it can be aggravating.
I like that you can explore Xanga to see if you like it before you set up a blog. I also like the community feel of it. I don’t see that on WordPress.
well see, there’s one of the reasons I wasn’t too happy about it. Maybe if the xanga team sets it up for us it will be easier to use? who knows?
Nice WordPress blog. I look forward to more—maybe. I don’t even know what my password is over there. I signed up over a year ago and then never posted.
Sam here. It’s not very intuative and it runs ridiculously slow with Firefox, not to mention there’s no front page or anywhere listing blogs that might be of interest.
(saw this on Top Blogs)
Yeah, WordPress is incredibly frustrating to use, especially when it comes to making layouts. It was so easy here!
Blogger is a bit easier to use, and that is why I made a blog there… but I’m really hoping that Xanga pulls through and I can continue here.
I am trying blogspot. Not sure I am impressed.
@Roadkill_Spatula- Check out Thoughts.com. They’re similar to Xanga.
I was going to start one, but now, I think I might have second thought.
I looked at Thouights.com. It looks interesting. I’d like to keep in touch with you and Alicia, so I’ll message you my e-mail and FB, though I don’t like FB. It does help me keep track of my kids, and see grand-kids’ pictures
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@angys_coco - I’m finding a few more features as I look at it today. Maybe it’ll be all right. I just haven’t figured it all out.
@Roadkill_Spatula - Keep posting about what you find, then it will help me too.
I find WordPress amazing and Xanga tremendously limiting. From the above comments, I assume most find Xanga easier and upon a moment of thought, that makes sense. With the right theme, WordPress can be relatively easy but “How do I find the right theme?” is a troubling question. If you do not know CSS or HTML, I think you need to ask someone who knows, like me, how to get started with WordPress. But, to trash the technology because you do not know what you need to know … seems a bit xenophobic.
@chromepoet - I’ve seen some amazing WordPress themes on other people’s blogs. But when I tried using the initial setup wizard, it wasn’t a very promising beginning. Xanga has its issues but is a lot more intuitive.
I think we should all move to Tampa and hangout together in person….
Sorry to hear it! I have seen numerous very elegant wordpress blogs & assumed that it was easy to use.
Following your wordpress. It definitely takes time to figure it out.
@mlbncsga - I have a barbecue grill I haven’t even unpacked yet.
It’s today now.
Things I’m liking about wordpress: my stats section is much more informative and quite fun to read. My reader lets me know every time a new blog post pops up, but it’s people I follow and it’s not cluttered up with the whole irritating “subscription”/”friend” distinction. No one is sharing their comments with me, the ones they’ve left on other people’s blogs, which I like, because that drove me nuts. But I have a little comment icon in my reader that glows and lets me know any time someone leaves me a comment or responds to a comment I’ve made. It’s true I don’t have -ish sites or Top Blogs. I suppose that’s the community difference? But otherwise it’s not any harder to log onto my wordpress site than it was to log onto my xanga site. I never really did photos. I guess if I was used to doing a lot of photos, it would be annoying to learn how to use the new site. But. I kinda like it. I’m not saying I like it better than Xanga. I like Xanga because I like my friends. I want to blog where my blog friends are.
@ordinarybutloud - I’m sure it will be fine once I get the hang of it. There are nice features and it’s well-respected. It’s hard to be positive when you’re tired and grumpy and your wife is in another country and Skype isn’t working because the internet is out in large parts of her city because they gave a huge contract to a company that doesn’t have the infrastructure to meet the demands.
You’ll get the hang of it.
But, there’s no placed like home.
HUGS!!!
Every day it looks darker than the day before. I wrote for some techie help at wordpress, and the answer was reasonably prompt (I’m being charitable; it was at least a day later) and quite friendly but alas, not very helpful.
Ever since you and I took turns entertaining Zakiah, I’ve wanted to get to know you better. Can we stay in touch please? I’ll message you with my email.
@twoberry - No problem. We would enjoy meeting you.