Wow.

I think I know now why I like Moveable Type over Wordpress. One word: documentation.

I have been searching for over an hour in the alleged documentation for Wordpress, including their "outdated" Wiki and their Codex. They really suck. Try searching for "comment" -- you get nothing. Seriously. If you try and find information about working with comments, it doesn't exist, according to their seach.

And if you manually start paging through the pages, you can finally find SOME information about comments. However, if you want something really, really simple -- like the number of comments on a post -- you cannot get it. Sure, you can DISPLAY it, but you cannot actually GET the number. That seriously stinks.

Using MT, this would (and did) take me a few seconds to find the information and use it. With WP, I still have not found how to do it, even after searching and attempting crap for over an hour. From what I can find in their manuals, the only way to actually get the number of comments is to actually loop through them and and count them yourself. Damn, that sucks.

But hey, if you know how to do it, please do let me in on the secret, because apparently the developers of Wordpress don't know.

Posted by: Ogre at 07:28 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
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