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1. haasim
   Member
   Posted 7 years 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.

2. haasim
   Member
   Posted 7 years 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.

3. NuclearMoose
   Member
   Posted 7 years 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.

4. davidchait
   Member
   Posted 7 years 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

5. Root
   Member
   Posted 7 years 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.

6. haasim
   Member
   Posted 7 years 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?

7. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 7 years 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.

8. Root
   Member
   Posted 7 years 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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