Returning to MovableType

  • haasim

    (@haasim)


    19 years, 10 months ago

    I’ve been using WordPress for the last couple of months and at first I thought it was amazing; it’s fast, clean, and there’s no rebuilding, But now that I’m planning to relaunch my blog, I want more of a magazine feel which requires more customization and that’s when I realized WordPress is pretty no frills.
    MT gives me greater template control right out-of-the-box, but with WP I have to hack the hell out of it to get simple functionality.
    Meanwhile,. the admin interface is kind of clumsy (eg: under the WP edit menu, all I want is a list of entry titles, but I get alot of junk info that makes it difficult to search my archive.)
    And the list goes on.
    Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trashing WP, I think it’s awesome and more than enough for the average web blogger.

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  • Thread Starter haasim

    (@haasim)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    I just took another look at the Movabletype page and I don’t know if I can’t justify spending $100US (which is a kajillion dollars CAN), actually I know I can’t, so maybe I will take the time to hack the hell out of WP afterall.
    It’s well past 1am right now and I’m sleep deprived, so just ignore everything I originally wrote and forgive me for saying all those awful things I said, because come morning I’m going to need help figuring out what to do.

    NuclearMoose

    (@nuclearmoose)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    haasim,
    I’ve been there too! We’re here to help out. By the way, Jesuit is working on the admin panel, and it will likely be incorporated into the next release. http://chrisjdavis.org. Drop him a line and offer your suggestions, and have a look at what he’s done. He’s great to work with.

    davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    hassim –
    Post what you’re trying to achieve, and there’s a bunch of us mooses (meeses?) around that have hit a lot of the issues/considerations before. Lord knows CHAITGEAR is far from ‘stock code’… 😉
    -d

    Root

    (@root)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    Welcome to WordPress. Just take one thing at a time and you will be fine. Once you get into it you will amazed by WP.

    Thread Starter haasim

    (@haasim)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    I know nothing about PHP so please bare with me.
    I’m attempting to duplicate the layout I made for MT, but I’m getting a lot of white space between tags.
    eg:
    <?php the_title(); ?><br><?php the_excerpt(); ?>
    GIVES ME:
    title
    insert excerpt here
    INSTEAD OF:
    title
    insert excerpt here
    ——————–
    This is a really big problem for me, because my design fall apart with big gaps all over the place. Is there some way I can deal with this?

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    I would imagine that CSS will give you the control you need.
    If you do not want to give your site url here, could you get into #wordpress on irc.freenode.net and we can try and help there ?
    We’ll need the url though – being able to see the code really will help us.

    Root

    (@root)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    Just to reinforce what these two guys are saying. A lot (nearly all) of layout type of issues are managed in the CSS.

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