WordPress vs Typepad

Today was my first full ‘blogging’ day using WordPress after having swapped from Typepad.

Whilst WordPress is excellent in nearly every respect, it’s absolutely pathetic when it comes to any sort of content creation. I do mean: Pathetic. I thought smarter people than me had figured all this stuff out ages ago so that when I changed, it would all work.

All I want to do is select some text from a page that I’d like to quote and hit ‘post’. Then I want a little window to pop up with the quoted text sourced – a la typepad – then I want the option to upload a screenshot.

What’s more — and now I know I’m asking the Earth — I’d like this screenshot to be thumbnailed in my post, but when you click on it, you can see it full size.

This ain’t difficult.

There’s one plugin that does half of this. Another that does 25% and another that sort of does this, but then you need to manually edit the source code to make it work.

Won’t somebody PLEASE make it all work nicely? Perhaps someone has. If you’ve any suggestions let me know.

I have seriously thought about setting up a new blog on Typepad and using their little publisher javascript thingy to do the posting on SMS Text News — then have the WordPress blog republish the Typepad feed.

I’ll muddle on.

Oh, and another thing, the email to blog stuff doesn’t work. At all. It’s perfectly fine if you write one line of text from your Blackberry and email it. Write anything more and it goes all MIME on you and posts pages of gibberish. I know there’s solutions but, quite frankly, I’m specialising now. Division of Labour ‘n all that. I really don’t want to have to sod about in the gubbings when I’m trying to blog stuff.

Anyway I’m quite happy with WordPress otherwise.