Pardon the Dust
December 23rd, 2008
I decided to move my main site over to WordPress. Here is why.
- MovableType started to require multi-user sites to use pay lisences.
- Integrated updates of plugins and program. This means that updating is pressing a button, not unpacking the archive, making sure the update is up, testing, breaking, etc.
- More plugins which are free.
- Using a dynamic PHP/MySQL-based CMS for presentation is much quicker to updated than a CGI-bin creation of static files is more appropriate for a large corporate blog then a tiny one like mine.
- Better autosave and WYSWIG. Not like I need either, but the quicker the better.
- Custom fields
I need to figure out what design I should do. MT is easy for taking a comp and building it out. WP’s templates are based on raw PHP code, which feels extremely old school to me — my first non WYSWIG site I did updating for – collegedems.com (under an old design) required handcoding within the php code with includes.
So pardon the dust while things move around.