All Forces

Last week my latest work erwinmcmanus.com was launched. The site runs on WordPress, however it is not set up as a blog. I really wanted to run the site on WordPress to make use of the comment system, rss feeds, templates, pings and trackbacks. I also wanted to push WordPress as a CMS system to see if it can handle it. I was able to get it all working without any modification to the core which was good. WordPress has a killer way of handling templates through themes and I was able to set each section as a separate template file. There are some areas that are still being developed because of the lack of good WordPress plugins but it’s done for the most part. There are some really good plugins out there for WordPress but there are a few but very important ones that are either not up to par or are missing entirely. i.e. the current photo albums are either too basic or too complex. There’s only one “form to email” plugin that makes it impossible to have multiple forms through your site that sends emails to different addresses. And the one that tops it all is that there are no shopping cart plugins at all. Nothing. What do I do? I write one myself of course. So now I am emerging myself into the PayPal API and the WordPress Plugin API world to write my own plugin. Ah, the joy of tech.

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