Why I hate Wordpress

The job that I'm doing the CSS design for is for a blog that's created by Wordpress ... and having to use it has turned me into a grumpy old man. Woman. Whatever.

The idea behind all blogging hosts is that they should make it easy for a non-tech person to sign up, sign in and post away. What I like about Blogger is that if you are a tech person, you can fiddle and play with the css yourself and edit/create your own template quite easily. You don't have to, but you can.

For the past couple of days, I've been working on a local installation of Wordpress when writing my design. (Oh yeah - you're encouraged to use the Theme Editor ... balls off!). So today I go to upload the first draft of my design to the test account I've set up at WankPress and ... I can't. You can't upload your own template. Or perhaps I'm just missing the button. Yes, that must be it. So I go and FAQ how to do this and I find this:

Can I edit my templates?

We are definitely mindful of making everything more customizable for our users, but at the same time we don't want people to have to look at HTML and CSS code, which is antithetical to the purpose of WordPress.com. If you want complete control over your enviroment, you're probably better off running WordPress on a great web host of your own, but if you really don't want to worry about that sort of thing just stick around and we'll be adding more customizability as time goes on.

Hmmm ... what? You too worried that people might sue you for the headaches obtained when looking at CSS? Scary scary stuff.

h3 {
    border:0;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 1.1em;
    margin-top: 0;
}

ol#comments li p {
    font-size: 80%;
}

p, li, .feedback {
    font: 80%/115% Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
    letter-spacing: 90%;
}


Boo!