Frowns all ’round…

They’re getting me down. I don’t know what happened back in the day, but some-how Wordpress got a bad reputation amongst the war-hardened veterans of web development (funnily enough, not so much the young, creative ones). I’m a Wordpress guy; I develop professional websites built on the frame-work, and I’ve been doing it for a couple of years now. This means two things: I really, really love Wordpress, and I really, really KNOW Wordpress. And these two things are directly related.

Wordpress has been around for a lot longer then I’ve been fiddling with it’s bits (since 2003), so I can’t say I was there in the stark beginnings, like some, but I do know it as it is today (version 2.7 at the time of publishing). When I first started out with Wordpress, I always had a bunch of codex tabs open in Firefox. Every time I wanted to do something on the web, I had to wade through tabs about bookmarks and comment forms, widgets and asides… All stuck there until I got around to plugging away at the relative code. The Wordpress Codex makes developing on the platform one of the easiest things I’ve had to learn since making burgers. I can only assume that the fact that you don’t have to head off to university to learn how to code a WP powered website doesn’t help its image in the eye of the high-horse riding majority that nay-say the software.

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