Every so often I decide for no good reason that I should redesign my website and swap content management systems. I’ve been through a lot, and now I’m trying WordPress, the blog-a-jiggerie thing. Right now I’m testing out the sticky feature to see if my introduction blog post with a purty picture of me will stay at the top of the page or be pushed down by this more recent post (i.e. testing the quality of WordPress programmers). Let’s see. [edit: It works, yay for WordPress so far.]
Actually, I am quite impressed with WordPress. Nearly everything I tried to do was super easy from the admin side. Upgrading, changing permalinks to clean urls, and installing templates could all be done inside the admin GUI without having to go dig through code. This is a welcome change from other wikis/cmses I’ve used before. I did have to modify some CSS and the template code a bit (remove nested pages from showing up as buttons on the top left side of the header bar), but it was all quite painless. Importing text from Word and my old webpages was surprisingly easy. So really within a day, I have most of the relevant stuff from my old webpage and am almost ready to go live with the new site with WordPress as the backend.