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Wordpress and Customer Service

divabat — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:07:46 -0800

Wordpress users: is the customer service still as shit as it used to be circa 2006-2007? So the main reason I hate Wordpress with a passion and shudder when anyone recommends it to me is because I used to be on WP.com from 2006 to 2009 and encountered some of the worst customer service ever. Any suggestions would be met with derision by Matt who would snarl "go get your own server then", even if it's stuff that affected accessibility (such as printouts of WP.com blogs not coming out right). There was once a Wordpress Wank blog and I remembered being chewed out on there by Matt in the comments claiming I was "rude" and belligerent because I dared make a suggestion.

I have had to use Wordpress (the self-hosted version) for other people's projects and I haven't really been fond of it either - I found some tasks, such as embedding video links, much harder than it should be. But as I try to get my web presence back up and running I find that other options elude me. I still haven't found a working Tumblr clone (I got chased off Tumblr by its rabid toxicity and if I return I'll certainly be spotted again) and while I love Textpattern the design options for it aren't great and I don't have the chops to come up with my own design or hire someone to do it for me. (I tried Posterous for a while but it was super buggy.)

I feel like I have to go back on Wordpress simply because more people develop for me, but I really don't want to be subjected to rubbish customer service again. Is there hope? Are there other options?

Self-hosted Tumblr?

divabat — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:13:46 -0800

Is there a CMS that works much like Tumblr that I can install on my own server space? What I liked about Tumblr was its ease of posting different types of media, allowing for a variety of post types. What I didn't like was its toxic environment and drama, and I eventually left.

I miss the functionality, and would like to recreate it in my own space. I liked how Tumblr automatically added the links to the content and how it made it easy to upload media on the New Post page itself. I'm not too worried about ask/reblog/like at this time.

I hate Wordpress with a passion, greatly prefer Textpattern though am not sure how to get that to work like Tumblr. I'm open to other CMSes.

A series of tubes for my arts.

overeducated_alligator — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:41:32 -0800

How do I keep all my artwork organized on my web site? I make a lot of different types of art. For example:

- traditional media sketches & paintings
- commissioned graphics/logo/illustration work
- panel comics
- silly doodles & cartoons
- figure drawings
- animation (video & GIFs)
- also, I make art tutorials (video and static)

I have a static web portfolio which has a "gallery" section, I put a sampling of work on there which essentially doesn't change. I also have a blog section, which is a Tumblr, where I post day-to-day sketches, etc.

I'd kind of like to get something which is more organized than the Tumblr, but simpler than FTPing new files to my web space and then updating the php/html of each static page. I like the Tumblr interface (I used to use Movable Type), but it doesn't seem that robust.

Ideally, I want there to be a central stream of new stuff, but every time I upload something new, I want it to go live permanently in a gallery section I assign it to. That way each section maintains its own chronology.

I'm OK with PHP/HTML/CSS/MySQL so I'm not afraid of writing a custom CMS if that's the best idea. If I go with an out-of-the-box system like Wordpress, how simple will it be for me to customize it?

Using EXIF time stamp as blog post time?

malapropist — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:22:00 -0800

I want to set up a little "one picture a day" blog, using something like Tumblr, except I want the time of the post to be taken directly from the "Date Picture Taken" EXIF data. Is there a CMS (or even better, a Tumblr hack) that will allow me to do this? I'm trying to set up a blog where I take a photo every day and post it, except I don't really want to worry about actually having to post the picture every single day. Ideally, the blog software would be able to do it automatically, and I'd be able to post it from my iPhone. I want the time of the post to be taken directly from the "Date Picture Taken" EXIF data. Is there any CMS that can do this?

If there's a hack that will allow Tumblr to do this, even better. Anyone know of anything that can do this? I haven't been able to find anything.

By the way, I have a Flickr already and I don't think it's suitable for the stripped down, tumblelog thing I'm trying to go for with this.