ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
About a month ago, Blogger, which I've used since '01 to make this site, announced that they're dropping support for FTP publishing. That's geek speak for "The way that stuff gets from Blogger's system, where I put it, to the Indrelunas.com servers, where you find it, ain't gon' work no more."
Because I'm way too cool for blogspot, I'm in the market for a new content management system... and unless one of y'all speaks up soon with news of a fancy new CMS that would be perfect for Brian.Indrelunas.com, it looks like I'm moving to WordPress.
I used to make fun of WordPress, especially when sites that were supposed to be serious launched sporting a default WordPress theme. But apparently, WordPress has grown up a bit over the years, unlike Blogger, which still kinda feels like it almost 10 years ago.
To be fair, I haven't opted into many of the new things the Blogger team has created, but that's because they've mostly been dumbed-down WYSIWYG-type things. The list of features that I can actually implement as a guy with a hard-coded template who uses the non-WYSIWYG post editor is kinda short — a title field, post labels, comments... all things that are kinda seen as a given these days. And that said, Blogger has sported some cool features that I've used all along, like the ability to post via e-mail and, therefore, via my barely e-mail-enabled brick phone that I had in college.
But it's time to move on, and I'm pretty confident that I can make WordPress bend to my every whim... especially after seeing what Scott did with the new statepress.com, which runs on WordPress.
So prepare yourself for yet another new (and hopefully improved) Brian.Indrelunas.com, coming sometime before Blogger shuts down FTP on March 26. Depending on how much I feel like messing around with WordPress and how successful I am in said messing around, the new Brian.Indrelunas.com may be a lot like this one or it might have a new look and feel by the end of next month as well.