Running screaming from Slash.

[reddragdiva]

My all-but-comatose music site, Rocknerd, shudders along on Slash. Using WordPress here makes me not want to kill it with a stick, so I've put a test site up. The only tentacle I've found so far is that I'll have to learn CSS to make stuff work in whatever theme I pick.

Startlingly useful plugins: Admin Drop Menus (really — install this first), TDO Mini Forms (allow post submissions from the big wide world — essential to replacing Slash), WP Cache (though I've hardly the traffic for it), Category Image(s) (essential Slashalike bling ... once I work out the CSS), Subscribe To Comments and Get Comments Count.

Are there any other useful plugins worth trying in order to recreate the shiny bits of Slash without the horrors within?

Comments

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

May I ask what you like about Wordpress? I am moving away from Slash - but to Drupal.

[reddragdiva]

Mostly that it doesn't make me want to kill it.

Hey, might try Drupal. Did you manage to port the data, though?

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

sort of - but I did it by writing a perl script which read from one database and wrote to the other. Not ideal - and only really works once

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Ah, you're talking about a different type of slash...

Unsure whether to be relieved by lack of die-hard geekery, or alarmed by the default assumptions of my brain.

[reddragdiva]

"I found Dance Dance Revolution fanfic on fanfiction.net and lost all will to live, and all I got was this T-shirt."