Wordpress or Movable Type?
on 07.20.06, 07:58am in weblog • comments (6)
Now that I’ve been on Typepad for over a year and a half, I’ve decided that its probably the right time to mess things up and move the blog to an ISP and run either Movable Type or Wordpress. I can’t believe that this will be the 5th engine move since I started The Furrygoat Experience in 2001.
Anyone have any thoughts around Movable Type vs Wordpress? Going to MT will be alot easier from Typepad, but I’m curious to see what Wordpress offers.
vern (July 20, 2006 @ 8:46 am)
Why not switch to something like Community Server or (bias) subtext?
Open Source. .NET.
FREE!!!
Webhost4life, as well as others, but I am familiar with theirs, has an automated install of CS which is beautiful.
AAwoken (July 20, 2006 @ 9:04 am)
Wordpress. I used both and Wordpress is far easier. I’ll even do you one better. Pete99.com has a Wordpress hosting special $12.00. Hard to beat that. Plus he’s got great customer service. I have three blogs running with him. (Note: I ma not affiliated with Pete in any way. I found him through Matt Mullenweg a couple of years ago.)Oh! and he has One -click installs.
Steve (July 20, 2006 @ 9:18 am)
I’ve already got an ISP set up (and they have Wordpress one-click installs :)).
Of course, moving to Wordpress will kill all my “permalinks”
Cale Bruckner (July 20, 2006 @ 9:19 am)
I’m a big MT fan but I don’t have a lot of experience with WP to produce a balanced recommendation. I like the complete control I get with MT and 3.2 has some great spam blocking features built into the system. I’m a long-time MT user and I’ve never really considered switching to MT or another system so I guess that says a lot about MT.
– Cale http://www.palmit.com
Shawn (July 20, 2006 @ 9:35 am)
I’ve used both (and inhaled both times!). I find WP to be far easier to manage. There are some great hacks for migrating a MT db over to WP - you might see if that would work against a TP blog. I’ve also seen good hacks (involving the .htaccess file) that allow you to preserve your permalinks.
I’m pretty bullish on WP right now. That said, I just received my Vox invite, and I’ve been pretty impressed by what they’re offering…
jeff (July 21, 2006 @ 6:17 am)
3 important questions in the choice:
- migration of current blogs?
- ability to create various categories, each with it’s own blog and feed
- ability to forward or backward date posts.