Stop the (Word)Presses!

My experience with WordPress was good overall, though I wish we had had more time to work on the project. It felt like a tremendous amount of time early on was spent clarifying the assignment, rather than fulfilling it.

I came into this project with some WP experience. Previously, I had used WP for blogging and was familiar with many of its themes, as well as with utilizing the tagging and category features. However, I had really did much with the plugins/widgets/gadgets prior to this assignment. Quite honestly, I wasn't even sure that WP featured them--at least not to the degree and in the variety that Blogger does.

I had a bit of an embarassing experience early on when I was tooling around on the site to reacquaint myself with WP. In "cleaning up" the sidebar I eliminated the Meta gadget, which is what allowed us all to be site administrators. The upshot was that while trying to contribute to my team, I wound up locking my teammates out of the site. Fortunately, this was easily fixed once I knew what the problem was. (Thank you, Dr. Oguz).

I have mixed feelings about the whole team structure. Though I could not have asked for better team members, we struggled with the classic bane of student teams: scheduling. I think this problem was exacerbated by the short time frame we had to work within. In the end, however, I suppose we did pretty well.