Comments on: Goodbye Movable Type, Hello WordPress

By: seth

seth — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:20:16 +0000

I run a tiny site for my Businessand we use WordPress because it’s what I know. Anyway, the site is S L O W and I can’t figure out why. I know that turning on caching didn’t seem to help much and I hated it because it added a step every time I tweaked the css and wanted to see the results/result.See You..

By: Aine

Aine — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:57:31 +0000

I just now ran across this post… yeah, Mike, the Long Tail.

For what it’s worth, I switched to WP from MT sometime during the development of MT 3, years ago now. It seemed like every iteration of MT, I’d have a half dozen things to “fix” in the core code to make the blog work the way I wanted it to. After a while, I just got sick of fixing stuff I shouldn’t have had to fix. Well, that and the spam comment problem became insufferable on MT right about then.

I haven’t looked back since, and have no regrets about switching. And I don’t have spam comment problems anymore. Now days, when I fiddle with code, it’s fun, not work… as it should be.

By: Mike Davidson - Presto Chango

Mike Davidson - Presto Chango — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:54:48 +0000

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By: bedava okey

bedava okey — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:00:22 +0000

your dreamhost page is now broken..

By: Strangely

Strangely — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:37:00 +0000

Amazing post and comments. We’ve got to have witnessed 5 of the top ten longest-ever comments there.
Seriously though, as a slightly informed bystander, from reading the stuff, it set me off twiddling my blog which has got rid of annoying problems and speeded it up a bit… So thanks Mike, Paul and all the lesser comment-length mortals!
It’s WP 2.7 I use.

By: Mihai Bocsaru

Mihai Bocsaru — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:23:21 +0000

As a movable type consultant I’m on the side of Movable Type, though Word Press seems easier to use. From a consultant stand point you could do much more interesting stuff with Movable Type than with Word Press and another plus is that Word Press has a good number of well known security issues (see wikipedia and google).

Your article is very good and informative, but I wished I would have been here for you before you’ve switched over to word press :)

By: Oyun

Oyun — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:20:53 +0000

your dreamhost page is now broken..

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:15:07 +0000

Dan: Sadly no. I should have though… :(

By: Simon Cox

Simon Cox — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:23:49 +0000

I am still running my site on MT331 and have decided not to move it to MT4 but to Expression engine – which I have made a start on. The import facility is great and I have transferred over all six blogs used to run my site, including all comments and keywords. EE2 is due out this year and I think it really will turn heads. EE was a steep learning curve but so very powerful.

By: oyun

oyun — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:24:11 +0000

What I can’t believe is that I’ve reconsidered switching from Movable Type to WordPress; because if I can in any way protract what appears to be MT’s declension, I’ll be able to find an edgy, well-informed Clash of the Boffins like this one. Lord, when you nerds get mad, you get mad.

By: Dan Keldsen

Dan Keldsen — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:26:09 +0000

Mike – Have you documented (or can you recommend other documentation) on your transition from MT to WP? Looking to take a similar journey – hoping to avoid the potholes. :)

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Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:48:29 +0000

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By: Kurt Deutscher

Kurt Deutscher — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:24:50 +0000

Hi Mike,

“. . and if I was starting from scratch, I might have chosen ExpressionEngine instead . .”

Please enjoy your new WordPress site.

When you’re ready to make the move to EE, just let us know. We’ll take good care of you.

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