Wordpress and Themes
I’ve been doing a lot of work on my wordpress installation lately. I migrated my blog to it, then built a theme for it, then trashed it and built another theme for it. I then put up a family weblog and built a theme for that. Then I built a plugin which facilitates photo blogging. It turned out so well, that I think I’ll polish that up some more and publish it. Just lateley I completed work on a website for my extended family on my Mom’s side, 816pine.com. I also built a theme for that one and am reusing my photo blogger plugin. I expect that blog to require some other new plugins also.
I’m quite impressed with wordpress. So far, it is the easiest blog software I’ve worked with. Creating themes is easy and fun, and the extensibility through plugins is also the best I’ve seen so far. I am able to run all my different blogs by modifying the config file to load the config based on the site domain name. The only issue so far is some poor calculation of the upload directory filesystem path and url path which forces you to share the upload path among all blogs. I solved that by making a modification to the code to translate the filesystem path from the url path which is now configurable via the options pages in the admin area as of 2.0.1.