Finally I moved my blog from Movabletype to Wordpress. This because we use blogs at the company where I work and we wanted a free open source blogger we could offer our customers. So to learn Wordpress I just moved my blog.. It was a bunch of work, the import of the posts was easy, but then to style up the site and integrate my tools (if you care: I created a separate page template for these pages, then in the post I put just the url of the PHP script I wanted to call and in the page template I did an include of that particular script) was a bunch of work..
Advantages of wordpress:
- it is PHP. I am much more familiar with PHP than with perl
- it is more “community spirited”. The documentation is a wiki site. I hope there will be many plugins and stuff in the future
- I think it’s better structured. I have not yet looked at the code but just from using this it feels more logic (that is: to me, a web application programmer.. :-)
- I can manage my pages (as my about and creations page). With Movabletype I hacked the blog into some wrapper just to include my static pages. Now with wordpress managing this pages I can have comments on these pages too and I can alter them from the webfrontend.
- Adding a post into multiple categories is much faster than in Movabletype. And I need multiple categories desperately (at least three per post..)
- I have “edit” links to every post also in the frontend. That helps a lot.
- The posts seem to be valid HTML automatically. In MT I had problems all the time to keep my pages valid HTML
Disadvantages of wordpress:
- I cannot have static html pages. I miss that quite much.
- The user interface is not as polished as in Movabletype. Deleting multiple post or just altering a post and watching the frontend doesn’t run as smooth as in MT.
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