Goodbye Movable Type, Hello WordPress!
I’ve been planning to do this for a while now, and its finally happened. SharadWare is now powered by WordPress. For a little over two years, I’d been using Movable Type. I’ve got nothing against MT - it’s a great product and my heartfelt thanks to it’s creators.
So why did I shift? Well, multiple reasons…
MT is written in Perl, WP in PHP. Personally speaking, I favor PHP for web applications and I’m more comfortable with it. Although my weblog is a little over two years old now, my writing has been sporadic, at best. So the backend didn’t matter as much as earlier. Now however, I hope to be more regular over here. And therefore I’d like to be able to tinker under the hood, if required. That’s the personal bias bit.
More objectively, WordPress has been making strides in it’s capabilities and good things are being said about it for a while now. There also seem to be loads of plugins available and I’m looking forward to trying some of the anti-comment-spam utilites. To tell you the truth, comment spam had become an increasingly irritating pain on my MT installation.
Finally, I like the interface and feel pretty good about the usability of the whole thing, which I think is very important. Although I should mention that in this respect, I didn’t really have any complaints with MT either.
I’ll probably post a few more thoughts as I explore and use this tool some more. In the meanwhile… thank you Movable Type; WordPress, let’s write… :)
July 22nd, 2005 at 7:12 pm
In my own experience, users that switch from MT to WP find their RSS feeds are more often than not invalid, whereas MT was almost always valid RSS. Don’t use any non-standard characters. Also, you’ll have to stay on top of the security upgrades of WP as it has lots of security holes, whereas upgrades to MT are very rare. Hope this helps!
July 23rd, 2005 at 2:30 pm
Security holes? That is a little worrying. *Sigh* Oh well… like you said, for now I’ll just have to keep plugging them. Thanks for your prompt inputs, Randy.