As I stated in the earlier post, Blogger used to be my platform of choice a few years back thanks to its infinite level of customisation, for it allowed users to edit the raw HTML code however they liked. It’s a feature that WordPress.com didn’t, and still doesn’t, have. However, over time I began to realise how ridiculous my blog skins were getting, and decided to switch over to WordPress. While it didn’t offer as much customisation options as blogger, it was still a really simple and effective platform, and I’ve come to love it over the years.
This blog now is running on WordPress 2.7 RC-1, which has been around for quite some time. WordPress.com is also running it I’m guessing, though for some reason their version doesn’t feel as buggy to me (or maybe it’s just me). Personally, I’ve encountered a few bugs with this version, but they’re minor ones, and I’m willing to live with them.
So I’m patiently twiddling my thumbs here, waiting for the official version of WordPress to be released. Hope it gets released soon, I could do with those few bug fixes. After RC-1 has been out for so long already, they still haven’t bothered to even provide an estimated release date, even though there really are only a few bugs to fix in my opinion.
Here’s hoping I can hit “Upgrade” in my dashboard soon.
For years before wordpress became so popular (ie. before wordpress.COM), most of the people I knew had one favourite blogging platform: Blogger (or blogspot as it was known then). There was much to love about blogger, chief among them being the ability to add your own piece of code and edit it however you like (unlike in wordpress.com). With that ability, people started coding the equivalent of wordpress plugins, which were really just chunks of code that you downloaded in a .txt file and copied into the correct portion of your blog site.