Waste of Time?
I spent a copious amount of time making sure I could transfer my modified b2 data over to the way Wordpress does things. I’m beginning to think that was a waste of time because I don’t think I’ll be using wp afterall.
I figured swapping out the b2 tags for wp tags would be the easiest part of the entire process, hahaha! No, not at all. It seems that in the fanatacism of standards wp adds ton upon ton of total garbage to every single template tag. I haven’t any desire to have dozens of span tags or list tags (even if I understand the general reasoning for having them). To work around all of the garbage spewed onto the html source by wp, one also needs to add several tons of additional CSS to ‘clean’ it up. It just seems truly asinine.
Granted, I may be wrong about some of this, but it seems that there are no options to prevent having all the extra shit generated by the template tags. What if I don’t want the category to always link to all posts in that category? What if I don’t want the meta ‘key’ to be shown always with the meta ‘value’ on the page? The documentation and the wiki don’t seem to provide those sorts of answers.
It seems that to get things the way I want them I’ll need to butcher the source code of wp itself, which sort of defeats the entire purpose of migrating to it. What was wrong with the idea of a template tag that is supposed to call the category being used to call only the category and nothing else?
Perhaps I just need to start over instead of trying to bend the template tags to work with what I’ve already been doing.