I have Gone to the Dark Side with WordPress. LENR-CANR.org is now converted and live. I am still making adjustments behind the scenes. See:
http://lenr-canr.org Anyway, regarding WordPress: It is a crowd-sourced mess. There are 18,626 plug-ins available at http://wordpress.org/ but most of the ones I have tried don't work. Anyway it is source code, completely readable, so I guess you cannot accidentally insert viruses. You can do plenty of other harm, but all you have to do is go to the plugins and deactivate the unruly one and bingo, it's gone. If you want to use WordPress, my advice is to pay for a Theme that has been carefully assembled and tested by some company. I like studiopress.com The stuff available for free is worth what you pay for it. Look for a Theme that already does most of what you want to do. Studiopress has one to display photographs: http://www.studiopress.com/themes/expose I have no idea whether this is good or bad. There are a zillion Themes available for every application you can think of, and many others you have no thought of. I must admit, a single source of software could never cover such a broad range of apps. - Jed
