So much for WordPress, at least for now. Earlier today I installed WordPress 1.2.2 on my Debian machine. At first, the install went very nicely. It set itself up all by itself. All I had to do was hit a PHP page. That’s when the issues started cropping up, though.
Issue #1: One Blog to Rule Them All
WordPress appears to only let you have a single blog. I wanted to keep my personal blog and my honeymoon blog seperate. I could have used categories to keep them “seperate”, but I really just wanted to have seperate blogs. I’m also considering having one blog for my personal items and another for more technical things. This way I can give the link to the personal blog to my family members and not concern them with my ramblings about blogging software.
Issue #2: Blogger Import Not Working
I followed all the directions to import my personal blog from Blogger. WP even told me it had imported all my articles. It even created a new user for this “Ryan Kennedy” guy that was posting to that blog. But the articles never appeared. This was really annoying. There’s also an RSS import but it requires modifying some field in a PHP file before you can proceed. Lame.
Issue #3: Can’t Remove Users
When the Blogger import failed, I wanted to clean up the few things it did import. So I tried removing the “Ryan Kennedy” user. Too bad the user admin doesn’t seem to surface any way to remove users.
I give WordPress an “A” for effort but an “F” for execution. It might have been okay if I started my blog in WordPress, but getting my stuff moved over is clearly not going to be a walk in the park. So for now I’ll leave everything with Blogger.