David Jack Wange Olrik

A friend of mine challenged me to share my active WordPress plugins.

So here goes, from one plugin addict to another

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Just over a month ago I began contemplating a move from Movable Type to WordPress, and for the last 14 days or so I have been running my blog on WordPress. I must say that the experience have been very nice so far.

Back in the day, when Movable Type was free, that was my blogging platform of choice. When Six Apart went the non-free way, I rolled my own, I used Blogger and Typo and I was mostly happy.

For a long time I stayed away from WordPress because I thought it sucked and more importantly because it was writen in PHP¹ which truly does suck.

On December 10th, 2008, WordPress Version 2.7 was released, and this version puts all previous versions of WordPress to shame. This is really a great release and almost makes PHP look sexy². WordPress has matured into a very powerful blogging platform which has an abundance of plugins³.

I think that Movable Type lost its momentum when Six Apart released Movable Type 3.0, with its new pricing scheme, and this inturn let WordPress take over. I have found WordPress plugins for all but one Movable Type feature, and that is “multiple blogs in one installation”. I have also found several plugins that I can’t imagine living without now.

I exported my Movable Type blog with tags and categories and used the supplied importer and a little custom perl script to fix-up the export before import. Piece of cake!⁴.

1. I don’t particularly like PHP, buy hey 10 million n00bes can’t possibly be wrong [↩]
2. I said almost! [↩]
3. I went nuts, and are currently using no less than 36 plugins [↩]
4. If you see some funky looking links, then maybe it wasn’t totally a piece of cake… [↩]

Welcome to my new blog powered by Movable Type. This is the first post on my blog and was created for me automatically when I finished the installation process. But that is ok, because I will soon be creating posts of my own!

I needed a cute countdown timer for my website, so I created one.

You can download it here!

Ok … I give up, well kinda – I have come to realize that I will never get a blog/personal website again if I have to code it my self…. Not that its hard or anything but it seems that I can’t find the time to finish it¹ …

So here it is – my blog! – Not as feature rich as I would like but it’ll get the job done until I find some spare time =)

And for those who find me silly for wanting to build my own blog … remember that sometimes when you reinvent the wheel, you will get roller skates!

1. Well it wasn’t actually me that came to that conclusion but by girlfriend, never the less – its true [↩]