I’m not sure about Mozilla (Firefox) vs. Automattic (WordPress) in terms of userbase, but WordPress is the top dog in blogging these days and you’d be surprised how many people use it. The difference in quality of development, documentation, support, etc. comes down to an issue of money in my mind. Mozilla makes a ton of money off of Firefox due to a deals like those it has with Google. Basically, you have big money pushing the development and promotion of the browser which would drive up profits for all those monetarily involved. There’s I’m guessing far less money behind WordPress and the open-source development, while getting us free open-source software, at the end of the day benefits Automattic more than anyone else. I’m guessing if things were *too* good or *too* easy to maintain, WordPress.com and their professional services might suffer a bit. Then again, when I look at the web in general I really wonder why we do things the way we do when technology (and logic) offers such better alternatives but I guess it’s more useful and realistic to try and improve what we have than to start a revolution.

One more thing… what caused you to suspect Post-Teaser wouldn’t work with 2.2.x? I still use the 2.0.x line personally but I tested it with 2.2 and found it didn’t want to work when using the more tag in posts. White screen as you mentioned. I only tested it briefly but I’m looking into the problem… I know where it occurs I’m just not sure what’s changed between 2.0.x and 2.2 so I’ve got to go through changesets/diffs in trac and see what’s changed. I can see why plugin devs stop supporting their plugins… what a pain.

Great post…

Cheers,

JÄ 

> ENABLE_CACHE. What it does and why or how is unclear, let alone other such possible settings.
It enables file based object cache which can improve performance. Unfortunately it also consumes more memory. I have seen it bring some sites to a crawl though personally it didn’t create any problems.

Also, Kaizenlog is a splog, so you might want to remove trackbacks from them.