Well, that’s it. As of last night, the last traces of WordPress on my site are gone.
There’s nothing really wrong with WordPress; in fact, for what it does it’s pretty elegant and flexible. But since, let’s be honest, I’m a geek, and I’m more about building my site than actually creating any meaningful content for it, running it on someone else’s engine is unsatisfying, and almost feels like cheating.
Besides, WordPress (and probably any other third-party tool) will never do everything I want it to, or at least it won’t do it precisely in the way I want it to. And it’s more fun for me to write my own code than to tweak someone else’s. So here we go.
Here I go, commenting on my own blog. I used the random blather link I recently added, and this came up. Ironic, since I’m using Matt Mullenweg’s random post plugin.
Oh yeah, I’m also using WordPress again ;) and have been for over a year now. But I’m not a revisionist (at least, not at the level of fundamentally altering the message of a post — I’ll certainly fix typos or add supplementary info later if I come across it), so I’ll let this post stand. It was referring to version 1.x of WordPress anyway, which was kind of a dog compared to what I was looking for at the time. Version 2.x is far superior, even though it does seem to be having an alarming number of “urgent security updates” lately.