9:46p.m. Lists Are Fun

Lists are so much more fun to write. I’m not sure if it is a good thing or not, but most likely most of my posts will be in list format.

• I’m going to make a WordPress theme from scratch. Hacking a theme was great for learning about how WordPress works, but I want to make a cleaner and leaner theme that I can (hopefully) use as a basis for future layouts. I think it will make future layouts and possibly porting to another CMS much easier.

• I’m pretty sure after I make a clean theme I’m going to end up at least trying TextPattern on my machine. The whole sections concept is genius. I just wish there was a TextMate bundle for TextPattern designing. That would rock and totally help with the template tag learning curve. I don’t know if I’ll ever be sure about which CMS I like better.

• I am much more pleased with WordPress then I was expecting. I was really frustrated by its lack of tag or keyword support. I tried using Ultimate Tag Warrior but it changes the database and I’m still not sure how to get it to work with an external editor (specifically TextMate) without a bunch of hacking that could create nightmares when updating. It then occurred to me I could just cheat and call WordPress’s categories tags. That way I’m not making huge modifications to the database or making a mess with extra scripting. It is not ideal though.

• From my [limited] understanding, TextPattern has keyword support, and there is this plugin that works with the keyword support, so in theory it should work with xmlrpc and external editors out of the box (sweet!).

So yeah, thats what I’m going to do now. Woo!