Looked at WordPress again recently, and thought I’d see how well I could integrate it into this site, and hopefully, save on coding time. Not sure if I saved any time. And still had to do some coding. Not too much though.

It will be an interesting balance to see if I end up thinking the shiny parts are worth what I am losing on the backend. WP takes care of many neat things like categories and editing and a control panel with many options.

But I had to sacrifice a template based system, secure comments (until I fix them later someday maybe), cached pages and modular based pages. Mainly I was too lazy to code up categories and RSS, so thought I’d use WP for something faster. I guess it could have been, but I still spent the better part of the day customizing, and really, not done yet.

Maybe this way can add some tweaks to the WP community. From first glance, looks like adding a home page module to chart blog headlines isn’t too handy. I wrote my own script. I haven’t used someone else’s script for a long time. I hope it ends up saving me time so I can go code other things.