yesthattom | WordPress is amazing

Previously I asked if I should use WordPress or MovableType. Many people said I should select WordPress.

I didn’t want to bias the comments, so I didn’t tell people that the site I was setting up was already a WordPress site, but I had stopped in December 2005 because I got busy with other projects. At the time I found WP to be painful to use. However, I figured that it must have gotten better over the years.

My hosting provider upgraded to the latest WP release and some things broke, but I was able to fix them. However, I wasn’t getting all the amazing new features that everyone was talking about. After a few hours of debugging I finally realized that the upgrade process doesn’t overwrite many files (better safe that sorry). Once I manually overwrote those files, I got all the amazing drag-and-drop stuff, widgets, and other cool features that I had been told about.

I’m very impressed.

Now I just need a widget that lets me include raw HTML so that I can hack around the fact that I can’t find Widgets that do certain things. (that would let me avoid editing the header.php or index.php files). Anyone know of such a plug-in or widget?