Ugh. I’m giving serious thought to abandoning Movable Type and moving to WordPress. I’ve thought a lot about this in the past, and always avoided it because I have so much time invested in MT, not just in this blog, but in all the others I support.
Pros: (allegedly) Little or no problems with comment spam. Open-Source and active development. Free. (Since MT is no longer free, this is a major benefit, as my free version of MT will quickly become out-of-date and full of major security risks). PHP and MySQL based, which means I can hack things myself. Better template structures. Speed. More logical operation (none of this rebuilding file nonsense).
Cons: Reinvesting a large chunk of time into learning a new system. Investing an even larger chunk of time into converting all the existing MT installations to WP. Training family and friends how to use the new system.
It seems clear that the pros outweight the cons, but I’m really nervous about it.
Another option would be to upgrade to MT 3, which has a free version allowing one user and up to three websites. This would work for every blog I maintain except for this one and dysnomia, and I think I could convert this one to a single-user blog pretty easily, though I kinda like allowing others to post here, too.
I guess the first step should be installing WP somewhere and attempting to migrate. More on this as I decide what to do.
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I hope you have better luck with WP than I did. I fought with it quite a bit but was never able to get over this weird unable to login problem, which is apparently rather common. I tried all sorts of weird PHP hacks and strange things that people had posted in the support forums, but finally gave up and went to drupal, which isn’t exactly a robust blog engine, but I’m not doing anything fancy, anyway…
I might try WP again for dedicated blogging, and just use Drupal for the root and general pages…
November 14th, 2004 at 8:19 pm
I hope this isn’t about all those penis-enlargement and generic viagra comments I posted here, Scott. Those were legitimate business opportunities, not spam.
November 15th, 2004 at 2:04 am
Heh - I can’t help but picture you as mafia when you say “legitimate business opportunities.”
November 15th, 2004 at 8:57 am