a quick note about wordpress

[NOTE: as you can probably guess, this was posted before I eventually moved the blog from Wordpress to Blogger ;) Wordpress was ok but ultimately it was too much hassle to go between different blogging engines.]

I just thought I'd throw in a quick note about Wordpress. When I decided to write this blog I thought "hey, it's all about trying new things..." (I run other blogs with Blogger).

Man, Wordpress has some seriously annoying quirks. I mean, what's with the line break thing? This line won't wrap in the inline editor. I haven't done anything differently from the first paragraph, yet here we go... Switching to the code view doesn't help, either. [This was where it would finally wrap to a new line.] Oh look, a new line finally.

The stats tracking is nice, the comment handling is ok, although a little verbose. Having to pay to customise the CSS is irritating, but I guess they need to make money somehow.

I can't truly evalutate WP without installing it myself or ponying up the cash to edit the CSS... which is a catch-22 since without giving it that test drive I don't know if it's really worth the money. I don't really feel like paying just to satisfy my curiosity ;)

So I guess my advice would be: if you're thinking about Wordpress for your blog, either plan to install it on your own server; plan to pay; or plan to use a default template with zero design mods. Depending on your needs it might be totally fine.

In general, WP's interface feels a bit more polished than Blogger; it has some better features out of the box. But it doesn't offer as much customisation - Blogger is free with near-total control (the limits are still annoying).

...and can anyone tell me how to fix that bloody line-wrap problem? So far I've only found posts about code formatting problems. Not plain text problems.