Published by Deborah on 17 Jun 2005 at 08:17 pm
Drupal
Drupal is a very good program on the surface. It offers clean looking theme templates and a variety of plugins. However, it was buggy right from the start, especially after you install a few plugins. Some of these plugins require you to build tables in MySQL.
I found this out the hard way and was forced to learn how to do this. That wasn’t a bad thing. But some of the code these plugins came with didn’t work. I started receiving all kinds of error messages both in my Admin section and in the header of the main site.
Once again, I found myself having problems switching themes. I’d click on one of the other templates, hit the Save button, and . . . no change. WTF! I found nothing in the support forums at the same time and decided not to bother.
Instead, I focused on writing the rough draft of my story. About a month ago, my CPanel announced the latest upgrade. I clicked on the upgrade button and found my header littered with error messages.
By this time, I was done with Drupal.
charlie on 20 Jun 2005 at 10:13 pm #
“Once again, I found myself having problems switching themes. I’d click on one of the other templates, hit the Save button, and . . . no change. WTF! I found nothing in the support forums at the same time and decided not to bother.”
Here’s one instance where this happens, and it’s not a flaw in Drupal. If you have set a default theme as a user (through my account), then that theme will continue to display if enabled even though you have selected a new, default theme in administer->theme. So a user’s local choice overrides the global default, as it should.
Deborah on 21 Jun 2005 at 4:58 pm #
If I’m understanding correctly, I should have made the change in both the Admin and the User sections for the change to take effect.