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WordPress is an interesting blogging system. Much better designed than ImmovableTrype, of course, but that’s probably because of the whole Perl-vs-the-reality-based-community dichotomy more than anything. So much more fully-featured than the mid-nineties stagnation that is LiveJournal. (You can actually control how it works! If you want a new feature, you can get it! You don’t have to wait for some talentless bunch of cretins to get around to implementing it! But I digress.)

The only problem, really, is the relative lack of support for WordPress MU, the multi-blog version. Since I plan to have a minimum of three blogs on here (for me, the Beloved and the Elder Daughter of DOOOOM), plus a bunch of extra blogs I’m planning to host for the local SCA barony, I needed something better than the default WordPress, which required a complete copy of the 2-odd megabytes of code for each separate blog. WPMU gives you the ability to achieve that, but there are some downsides. For example, the plug-in I use to handle cross-posting to LJ doesn’t know about WPMU, so I had to disable all plug-ins for every other blog or else they too would be able to post to my LJ. No doubt I can find an alternative that will work properly in this situation, but it will take some digging.

Anyhow, if you’re reading this at the actual blog rather than in the LJ mirror or an RSS reader, you’ll see I’ve got some styles set up to look more or less like the rest of flurf.net, including known IE bugs. It’s all a work in progress, so don’t be alarmed if it’s a bit flakey. I’m sure I’ll fix it in my Copious Free Time.

Crossposted from fLog.