Wordpress migration
Posted on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 in Personal
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 PHP ((I don't
particularly like PHP, buy hey 10 million n00bes can't possibly be
wrong)) 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 sexy ((I said almost!)). Wordpress has
matured into a very powerful blogging platform which has an
abundance of plugins ((I went nuts, and are currently using no less
than 36 plugins)). 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! ((If you see some funky looking links, then maybe it
wasn't totally a piece of cake...)).