{"id":3,"date":"2007-04-01T16:27:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T14:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vladimir-shapiro\/en\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2007-10-27T02:16:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T00:16:39","slug":"wordpress-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/2007\/04\/01\/wordpress-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress: First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even there are still several open questions for me I am ready to share my first impressions about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a>. My first project was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nina-shapiro.com\/wordpress\/\">blog for my little daughter<\/a> . For several reasons I had to implement it in Russian, so I &#8216;ve got in touch also with localization and plenty of other lovely features.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>Advantages<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Really easy installation process.<\/li>\n<li>Unicode  support (critical for me).<\/li>\n<li>Rich editor for post writing is really a step forward compared to what I&#8217;ve seen before.<\/li>\n<li>Administration panel looks user-friendly and solid. I had not an opportunity to test all the  features yet but the part I tested was convenient enough.<\/li>\n<li>Very flexible posting categorization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Disadvantages<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>According to famous 5-minute install, I have to create a database manually. If I forget to do it in a write encoding WordPress will skip this fact. The outcome will be a boring fight against encoding issues  or even a re-installation process. Definetly I have to pay attention to what I&#8217;m doing during installation but the consequences are worth to make a small warning for me at that place.<\/li>\n<li>Working with images in the post is a bit unfriendly and very limited in its functionality. I hope this is covered by <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/tags\/images\">correspondent plugins<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Despite plenty of <a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/WordPress_Localization\">localization projects<\/a> most of the skins (even <a href=\"http:\/\/binarybonsai.com\/wordpress\/kubrick\/\">Kubrick template<\/a>) are delivered without localization possibilities. To translate the interface, say, into russian I have to go through all my files in the skin (they are luckily around 10).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Overall impression<\/h4>\n<p>WordPress as a tool seems to be suitable for launch of small blog-based projects. I think I&#8217;ll try it in several others in the next months.<\/p>\n<h4>Open questions<\/h4>\n<p>Here are several points to be clarified in future:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Upgrading process. How usable it is?<\/li>\n<li>How to integrate such a tool in an already existing project like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictatorcontrol.ru\/\" class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.dictatorcontrol.ru\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dictator<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictatorcontrol.ru\/\" class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.dictatorcontrol.ru\" rel=\"nofollow\">Diorama<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Are there any benefits with combining it with <a href=\"http:\/\/mediawiki.13r.ru\/index.php?title=Mediawiki&amp;action=edit\" class=\"new\" title=\"Mediawiki\">Mediawiki<\/a>? How easy it is?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All this could be cleared only by doing. So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To be continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even there are still several open questions for me I am ready to share my first impressions about WordPress. My first project was a blog for my little daughter . For several reasons I had to implement it in Russian, so I &#8216;ve got in touch also with localization and plenty of other lovely features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}