Randy86

As a long time webdeveloper and webdesigner that have worked with Wordpress for the last 5 years or so I see some issues with IPC and from the response I see here this is shared by others as well and this is why IPC is not more successful than it is, despite being an excellent product.

The biggest problem with IPC is that out of the box it does not behave like most database applications like Wordpress and article managers. The Articles feature would be ideal for blogs or content sites like articles, knowledgebases and so on, but the strange navigation issues makes it confusing and annoying rather than easy and logical. The archive system is an interesting way of handling things, but it does not work practicly and it does not mimic any system I have ever seen...and I have seen alot.  This makes articles confusing and annoying to work with. The fact that you can only have one set of articles also makes this feature limited instead of inspire creativity.

Databases are awesome in so many ways and where the archive system for the articles fail, databases work perfectly. The big problem with databases is almost identical with articles, meaning that navigation is a pain in the...if you want to build anything but a list since the categories template is built as a list and it's not exactly straight forward to change that layout to a design like found for the articles.

In both cases the breadcrumb completely ruin the navigation experience to the point where its completely useless to use the wrapper, especially since the wrapper comes with a huge CSS file which you probably never will use and which will only make your website slow for no good reason.

Without good examples on how to add different designs and implement different functions for both the Articles system and the Databases IPC is failing in my opinion.

With a few good examples to work from and with the possibilty to remove the confusing navigation quirks in the Articles this would change dramaticly. Rework the breadcrumb issue so it makes sense and work on a separation of necessary code in the header so that the CSS is slimmed down for only what is needed for the wrapper with options to add more CSS individually in each file rather than dump it all in wether you need it or not...well, then you have a real winner here!

Wordpress has an equally complicated system if you want to diver deep into it, but there each function has it's own page with examples and I often return to those for ideas and examples to wok from and this is something I deeply miss for IPC.

Keep up the good work and I look forward to see IPC rise to new heights