Trying to set up a new site using WordPress and full site editing … and it’s the worst user experience I’ve had in a long time. So much bad design. : jemostrom.micro.blog

@jemostrom Wordpress gives me rashes. Just argued with a client about why I’m not using it.

@jemostrom here’s a little story you might find interesting: Why I’m writing faster.

Spoiler: Wordpress isn’t the hero.

@starrwulfe I guess if you need the experience managing a VM and etc, that makes sense to host on a VM but these days I am tired of having to worry about that kind of management. Generally, I’d pick Craft, Ghost, a headless CMS with a static SSG, even Netlify CMS over WP. It never ever works out like clients expect, and then you get saddled with user handholding. Now I’m ranting!

@rickcogley I manage VMs for work; now I just want my stuff to run properly without the foolishness. Your rant is very valid!

@rickcogley @starrwulfe I completely understand !

@writingslowly I agree, feeling comfortable with the tools you use is something that is really important. Sometimes I think it’s something that is undervalued.

@abc ohh, the writing is done using other apps (and I’m a person that have been taught to separate what I write from how it’s presented and think that these two things should never be mixed). In this case the frustration came from trying to understand full site editing. It’s a pretty horrible experience in my opinion, it feels like it is designed by the people who is writing the code.

@abc That’s a very good point. Markdown certainly isn’t for everyone or for every use-case. And I forgot that it took me a while to get into it, until now it feels transparent. And actually, the old Wordpress felt like that, so maybe the current one could too.

@jemostrom yes, finding tools that fit is so important. Happily there’s quite a few to choose from.

@writingslowly yes, I just feel sorry for those who doesn’t know that there are alternatives, or are not allowed to use what works best for them.

@jemostrom 💯% agree. Ideally there should be different writing tools for different occasions that could feed the same presentation outlet. Some universal standard like MicroPub would make this a breeze IMHO. Wordpress does have XML-RPC and there’s tools like Ulysses and MarsPad that work with it (also works with MicroBlog too!)