My WordPress Experience

Experimenting with WordPress has not been nearly as difficult as I first imagined. Again, I think I have my blogging background to thank for that.

I like how customizable WP is. The widgets are similar to almost every other external application I've encountered in my Tumblr, Macbook Dashboard and even here on Blogger. I liked playing with the appearance of the site, although I wish I could have browsed more themes to find the perfect one. I added the calendar, blogroll, tag cloud widgets and made sure to keep the meta portion very prominent on the page to avoid the confusion many other teams experienced.

I chose the most light-hearted of the plug-ins available to my team: the Hello Dolly plug-in that gives admins a random quote from the famous muscial. It doesn't have a practical purpose, but not all widgets have to. I like to think of it as a "coffee-break" plugin :)

The difficulties I faced where related to uploading. I had trouble resizing a picture, so the picture of me on my page has an ugly white border. Hopefully, one of my team members can help me fix it. I also accidentally kept a link private, but that was easy peasy to fix. Another thing I like about WP is how easy it is to edit and how it automatically saves drafts for you, but these are also common traits of other CMSs.