Monday, January 23, 2012

WYSIWYG Blog Editors

So I set up my website with WordPress again.  I'm still haven't found a theme I really love, but the one I've got is working well enough for now.  I thought about it briefly - moving my whole blog over there - but after playing around with it again, I've come to the conclusion that I like Blogger, and Google's whole interconnected suite of tools, better.

Why?
  1. The editor.  Blogger's WYSIWYG editor doesn't have a ton more options, but fonts are an easy dropdown, underline is a button on the toolbar, and picture insertion is much easier.
  2. Pictures also upload to my PicasaWeb account, where all my other pictures are, rather than to some nebulous place in the WordPress directory.
  3. And I can upload and insert multiple pictures at a time.  Editing picture options is much easier, as well.  The pictures also automatically link to open themselves full-size when you click on them.
  4. Single-spacing.  I can't seem to single-space in my WordPress theme, and damn it, I don't want to have to go in and customize all the CSS.  I went to WordPress so I wouldn't have to manually rebuild all the pages from the code up.

What I mainly wanted from the WordPress install was pages.  I haven't set up my own templates yet (believe me, I want to), nor have I found a theme that advertises itself as having the templates I want for pages, but it's working for now.  If only I could get WordPress with Blogger's editor...

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