The Mini-Meta Widget plugin is, not surprisingly, a replacement for the Meta Widget that ships with WordPress. Among others things, the Mini-Meta Widget makes it possible to easily put the logon form in the sidebar itself (and then redirect to whatever page the user was on after logging on).
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Man, ever little basic piece of function is a plugin? There’s a plugin to move the logon form to the sidebar? WTF next, a plugin to choose a different font?
WordPress would annoy the crap out of me. I suspect.
Yes, WordPress definitely has a held-together-by-duct-tape feel to it.
Craziness. FYI thinks for the link to Unreason. I’ve been working on a redesign all week that hopefully will decrease the suck of the site.