Making the move: MovableType to WordPress
A number of years into this whole blogging experiment (which I always hoped would become more, as I realize that hoping doesn’t quite cut it, but that’s a whole other rant), I’ve decided to make another system shift: WordPress. For all that I was quite happy with Movable Type, there are countless benefits to using WordPress, the most important of which are:
- Free, open source
- Lots of plugins, actively developed
- Uses standard PHP
- My brother’s using it too
That last point is actually what finally triggered the move, since I’ve been spending quite a bit of time over the last few weeks helping him troubleshoot and enhance his new blog (soon to be housed at stylez.de.
Standard PHP is not quite as easy to use as Movable Type’s proprietary markup script, but it gives me the added benefit of learning a something that can be applied outside the blog engine, and hopefully lead to some added knowledge I can apply to my fledgling webdesign projects.
Over the coming days, I’ll be posting about the details of the move. If you like, you can follow along. The old MT blog is at blog.hembach.com, the new in-development WP blog at blogs.hembach.com. Once the move has been completed to my satisfaction, I’ll swap the WP installation over to the ‘blog’ subdomain and delete the old MT blog.
As of this post, there will be no new content added or changes made to the old site.
