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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.

Technology movabletype, websites, wordpress

I’m playing around with Wordpress. I grew up using MovableType, since version 2, including managing CollegeDems.com, Democrats.org, and a variety of small sites for friends. It looks as if SixApart has decided to build their program to cater to the large scale media blogs (WashingtonPost.com, Time.com, etc). Thing is, Wordpress seems to be much better for smaller stuff, like my personal blog.

Still playing around, but what do you think?

Technology movabletype, tech, wordpress