WordPress is Go! My first impressions.

Right, I’m going to give this WordPress thing a go. I was planning on waiting for a PostgreSQL port, but it looks like that will take for ever to arrive. So I’ve gone for the MySQL version.

Initial thoughts:

• The interface is very comprihensive, and at the same time very cluttered.
• There seems to be a few errors popping up, and it looks like code that isn’t finished.
• I don’t like the fact that everything is dynamic (created on the fly). It doesn’t really need to be, and because it seems to do so many queries against the database, it’s not exactly quick. I woud rather see WordPress creating static files (or includes so that they can be used with a dynamic template). The other option would be to cache data in a file so that it doesn’t need to be got from the db.
• I don’t like the fact that you can’t assign blog info values to variables. All you can do is print them straight out. This makes some customization rather hard.

Now as the documentation is so poor, I may have picked up on things that aren’t really problems. I’ll post my thoughts to the forum and see what they say…