This has been floating around in my mind for a long time, but I think it’s time to finalize it. As of right now, I am completely leaving WordPress behind, at least development-wise. I will still continue using it for at least a while because I still think it’s good software, but I won’t be active in the mailing lists or the Trac system. My reasons are numerous, and I won’t list them here, but …
The WordPress and PHP 5 debate has sparked up (again?), mostly brought on by the discussion on the mailing list and Matt’s post on PHP 5. I think this post on funkatron.com explains it pretty well — what we do now with a mess of code could, in a lot of cases, be made into OOP code that is a lot simpler, plus PHP 5 has many advantages such as PDO, which the Habari project …
WordPress 2.2.1 has been released, which includes many fixes for bugs that sprung up, and most importantly of all, fixes a few rather major security holes:
escapeshellarg(). Unfortunately, PHPMailer seems to be no longer maintained, so looks like WordPress is going to have to maintain it, or switch to another library.Ever since I started using the PXS Mail Form plugin in favor of WP-ContactForm for my contact page, I always had problems with it conflicting with the Markdown plugin. Namely, that it disabled the Markdown formatting, and left me with a pile of rubbish.
At the time I decided to keep Markdown and disabled PXS Mail Form, and my contact page took a vacation, but I finally managed to take some time to look a little …
I’m in the process of retiring my old domain and moving things over here. I’ve decided to start the WordPress install from scratch, because, to be honest, I had way too much crap in the database. The same theme, though I’m now running the blog in the subdirectory, but apart from that, everything should be the same.
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