Forgetting it

honestly, the more i work with WordPress on the gallery, the more i just want to walk away from it.  to quote Billo, “this fucking thing sucks.”  maybe that’s not entirely fair, but i’m completely tired of trying to get it to work.  as soon as one issue’s resolved, another pops up.  i wasted all day yesterday, trying to get the gallery set up, only to end the day by deleting everything and starting over.

the admin pages are too fucking slow.  it takes 2-5 minutes just to load the thing i want to work on.  then i bring up the gallery loader, which takes forever, and when it’s finally finished uploading, all i have to show for it are a bunch of red x’s.  i don’t really feel like jumping through so many goddamn hoops when i can just stick something on DA or NG and let someone else figure it out.  i should have been animating this week, not dicking around with a convoluted set of programmes that only work half the time.

i will say that the WP Super cache works nicely (thanks, realityhandbook!), and the Grand Flash Album Gallery is entirely awesome, although i wonder about it when it comes to huge, expanding galleries… you’d probably want to break them up.  but from my brief time with it, i feel like it should get some kind of award or something.

so, i’m going to keep this blog, even though i’ve just found out that Ed Merritt coded it with em instead of px, which is fucking up how it displays in Firefox.  that pisses me off a little.  i’m either going to have to recode it myself, or set up a new layout and alter it to look like this one (within reason).  and i’m going to keep the gallery, but i’m not sure if i’m going to keep the gallery in wordpress.  it’d be nice to set it up with the lightbox plugin i installed, but since this goddamn thing is such an unwieldy piece of crap when it comes to a decent work pace, or just working properly in general, i may just say “screw it” and expect everyone to want to click a thumbnail, then shift back from a jpg on their own.  i was trying to save you the trouble of having to do any of this yourselves, but it’s going to give me an aneurysm, i hate it so much.

two out of 3 isn’t bad, though.  the blog works, minus the em issue, and the comicpress mostly works, even though its search and archive bars look really stupid.  you know, i don’t even know where the gallery is saving the images to?  it’s like some sort of scamming middleman… i’ve looked through every directory, and none of the test images i’ve uploaded appear anywhere.  it’s nonsense.  i’m going to try a few more things today, but after that, i’m torching the entire directory and rebuilding it myself.

so beware… and beware… and beware… the wordpress will bite those who do not dream.  actually, it bites those who DO dream.  those who dream of easy to manage, working websites.