![]() I looked around for help and I discovered wpdesigner, still maintained by Small Potato at the time. But I didn’t turn back to Joomal: I had realized that Joomla was way too much for what I wanted to do (a personal blog). I also used Joomla before to come to WordPress, and my first steps with WP were not easy (that wa back in 2006 I think). ![]() I mut say my experience is really similar to yours. I’m equally interested to hear from those that used WordPress and decided it was just too difficult to use and decided to use another piece of software to accomplish the task. For some, it’s been ages ago but I’m really interested in hearing stories from those who are brand new to the software or started using it since 3.0. If you could, please describe to me in the comments or in a blog post on your site describing the learning curve you faced when you used WordPress for the first time. Thankfully, the contextual Help tab in WordPress is helping to ease the discomfort of learning the system.Īt the end of the day, I believe that WordPress had a shallow learning curve when I used the system for the first time and since then, that curve has become closer to being flattened. However, if I had to take a guess, it would be becoming acquainted with the WordPress interface and figuring out which buttons and menus take you where and do what. It’s impossible for me to determine what the learning curve for WordPress is for new users because that’s a perspective I’ve lost and can never quite regain. If WordPress is installed via Fantastico or some other method that doesn’t require the editing of code or the manual uploading of files, there is very little in the way of difficulty encountered before they see the WordPress Dashboard for the first time. Users for the most part do not need to use FTP to install WordPress, Themes, or plugins nor do they need to use it for upgrading. Graph Is Based On Personal Experience From The First Time I Used Each Platformįast forward to WordPress 3.2. For me personally, the learning curve was very shallow and that was during the pre 2.3 days. What was weird chunks of code suddenly became stuff I could play around with without the fear of breaking the site. This is how I discovered what functions were and how parameters worked. I didn’t become comfortable with WordPress until I started editing themes. Upgrading the software was somewhat easy but not convenient. In order to add functionality from plugins into themes, I generally had to add functions with parameters to the theme files for where I wanted that functionality to show up such as single.php or page.php. These were the days when I had to manually upload plugins to the wp-content folder in order to install them, same for themes. Looking back at those first few days of using WordPress, the software itself was not difficult to use but figuring out where to go to get plugins, themes, support, and documentation was. I decided to go back to Joomla but after trying to install a commenting system while adding features that WordPress came with by default became frustrating aggravation, I gave WordPress a second try and that’s when the light bulbs started flickering. I can’t remember exactly how I discovered it but after installing it for the first time and trying to edit a theme, I decided it was too difficult to work with. After discovering Joomla was going to be too much of what I needed for my personal site, I came across a piece of software called WordPress. It was’nt the easiest piece of software to use but after you figured out the quirks that needed to be worked with instead of against, it was easy enough to get things done. You could ( and still can) control where and when certain modules would show up, there was an active community and a bunch of plugins along with themes to choose from. I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. WordPress is licensed under the General Public License (GPLv2 or later) which provides four core freedoms.Before I started using WordPress in 2007, I was a Joomla enthusiast. People with a limited tech experience can use it “out of the box”, and more tech-savvy folks can customize it in remarkable ways. WordPress provides the opportunity for anyone to create and share, from handcrafted personal anecdotes to world-changing movements. The WordPress open source project has evolved in progressive ways over time - supported by skilled, enthusiastic developers, designers, scientists, bloggers, and more. It is also the platform of choice for over 43% of all sites across the web. Today, WordPress is built on PHP and MySQL, and licensed under the GPLv2. The need for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing system was clear even then. WordPress started in 2003 when Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg created a fork of b2/cafelog. Learn about the community and how we get along.
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