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WordPress complaint #1: Arrogance of data design

June 21st, 2007 by Hen

Ignoring the #0 parts in the previous post.

They default the blog to having a Hello World, a Blogroll of links, a Blogroll category that you can’t delete. All irritating and unnecessary. You have to start by deleting crap to get to a clean slate.

Roller has the same default Blogroll and default Categories, and I’m not a fan of that. One plus is that at least in Roller you can delete them all.

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One Response to “WordPress complaint #1: Arrogance of data design”

  1. Adrian Sutton Says:
    June 21st, 2007 at 4:06 am

    Yeah, the initial blogroll is really annoying. Something about linking to developer blogs and back to WordPress, plus the anti-IE browse happy banner really bugs me. The continued commercialization of WordPress is a bad trend too.

    I also find the RSS feed of WordPress news on the dashboard annoying so I have a standard patch to remove it. Not sure how it’d go with WordPressMu though but it’s applied cleanly to a few updates so far. Grab it, along with a full description of what it does from http://www.symphonious.net/2007/03/03/another-wordpress-upgrade/