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Posted: Tue 25 January, 2005 Filed under: D4D™, Geeky 4 Comments »I really can’t explain how furious I am with WordPress right now. The upgrade instructions simply say
Upgrading
Before you upgrade anything, make sure you have backup copies of any files you may have modified such asindex.php.
Upgrading from any previous WordPress to 1.5:
- Upload the new files, and be careful not to overwrite anything important
- Point your browser to /wp-admin/upgrade.php
- You wanted more, perhaps? That’s it!
And that’s fucking untrue. Because of the way they now do it, the “themes” seem to have been split off into a seperate section, you have to split up the old index.php file into all these new pieces, and then figure out how the stupid bastards have put it all together. Sounds easy? Trust me, it isn’t.
Not only do you have to do that, you have to figure out just how they’ve coded the themes, and then work out how to register your own. Right now I want to find a WP developer, and rip their bastard throat out.
To coin a phrase, thanks a fucking bundle, WordPress, you utter utter cunts.
“…be careful not to overwrite anything important”? How is Joe User supposed to know what’s important and what’s safe to overwrite? Those are some pretty smug-sounding upgrade instructions.
Exactly – and it’s not like I’m just a Joe User, I do understand most of what’s going on under the hood of WP, and can edit the WP pages to provide what I want.
However, with the new “themes” stuff, they’ve moved shit around, and not (yet) warned anyone about it. Fuckers.
Both sides of the argument – I totally agree that the WordPress documentation is woeful, it seems to be based on a LOT of assumed knowledge. As a technical author I baulk at it everytime I see it.
However in slight defense of WP, the WP dev blog (linked from the main WP site) has been talking about this ‘new theme approach’ for some time now, stating that it would mean a bit of work for some people (all people I guess).
What the WP team seem to lack is a PRODUCT MANAGER. Someone who is in there fighting for the USERS of the system. It seems to be a little development playground at the moment, never a good thing for people who want to have a usable product.
Blogger.com is suddenly looking better and better.