I found something weird 2.7.1 than I’ve never seen before. At first I only saw the image caption feature which didn’t really bother me at first but when I took a look at the code and ran it through the XHTML validator it was seriously messing up my entire code. I haven’t found a way to disable the captioning but in any case I usually code everything myself in my post in html mode (even the images) but it is seriously annoying.
Recently actually I’ve been noticing a lot of things wrong with WP which I suspect is coming from the rapid growth it has gone through (its not exactly as light weight as it used to take pride in). I’ve been taking a look at other blogging tools to study and I’m seriously thinking of moving from wordpress to another blogging platform, would anyone have any suggestion? Im currently studying up Expression Engine but I would like to learn of a few more.
With what I have seen with Expression Engine, its more versatile when it comes to site design and structure as it doesn’t exactly use the normal header content footer hierarchy that most of us recognize from other blogging software. It is a lot like Textpattern and Moveable type in a sense that you create template and use their codebases. However I find (being used to the header footer thing) that this is what makes it a little bit more difficult as well but it does give you more freedom and it wouldn’t give you too much of a problem I guess.
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As for wordpress, unlike most reviews I actually find designing for it still very easy but it is easy to mess up as well since the php code is completely out in the open. While I was troubleshooting my theme this afternoon I decided to end my misery and create a basic wordpress structure php file with comments so I won’t get lost again when I’m trouble shooting or creating a new theme. It’s completely filled with comments its laughable but I think it might be useful to others out there who are struggling with creating their first theme since Im really trying to make it idiot proof just incase I forget something. I might share it on this blog later on but I gotta clean it up a bit first.