Jul
19
What better way to start a tech blog than to talk about the software that runs it! I’m using Wordpress on this site. More specifically, a version of Wordpress called Wordpress MU (for multi-user) which allows me to run multiple blogs with multiple users each and all using a single database with a single users table. Wordpress MU is what powers Wordpress.com and as of this writing they have 1,207,365 users! Yep 1.2 million users!
Anyway, Wordpress which started out as a fork of the b2\cafelog blogging software has grown into a de facto standard for blogging software.
Of course, the web being what it is, there are a ton of options out there. Some notables include the venerable Textpattern and Mephisto - a new, interesting software written in Ruby.
What I love about Wordpress though is the sheer extensibility of it. There are a zillion plugins available and about as many themes available. It barely took me a day to look at a template file and figure out how to mess with it to display as I liked. And that’s because the template tags that Wordpress uses (actually PHP functions) are very readable. For e.g.
the_title ()
the_author ()
the_post ()
Well enough for now, there probably will be more posts on Wordpress out here soon! 