My site may look a bit wonky for awhile – I’m not sure how wonky or for long. I gotta switch themes.
Rambling thoughts about WordPress
Development
WP as FrontPage
Way back in the prior millennium I got my start developing websites using FrontPage. FrontPage was much maligned by web elitists, but it worked great for me. Its intuitive WYSIWYG editor is still my favorite of all that I’ve used. I clung to my flat HTML site for years after FrontPage was discontinued, struggling to update it using whatever free tool Microsoft offered at the time. Finally in 2015 this approach – using crappy tools to maintain an antiquated site – became so obviously untenable that I was forced to find another solution. I found WordPress, fell in love with it, and never looked back.
Greetings byGosh
Greetings byGosh is my initial attempt to build experience in WP development, and my first plugin to be accepted into the official WP repository.
Learning WP Development
WP is awesome in part because it gives me the tools to build websites without bothering with knowledge of what is going on under the hood. If I learn just a bit about the under-the-hood stuff – HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript – I can do a lot more.
