I made the leap of faith tonight and was very pleasantly surprised with the minimal effort required! I followed a tedious backup procedure, made a list of all the hacks implemented on this blog, cut and paste some counter code to prevent erronous counts and let er rip! I thinks it looks dandy and I get all the new bells and whistles!! I still have a few hacks to modify, but some of them work just fine! Here is a short list of hacks and what has been done so far.
List of hacks installed:
1) Recent Visitor’s hack – alexking.org –Works in 1.0 just fineSpoke too soon, needed a teensie change for the categories changes
2) Translate this blog – should remain the same
3) Threaded Comments – will need some work, not to be done at 2:00 AM
4) Friends conversion – Works as it is
5) Stats hack – works just fine
6) Move menu around for CSS – works fine with a few changes
7) Sticky Posts – this will be a complicated change
Waypath hack – works fine in 1.0
9) Smilies on admin/edit page – Works just fine
10) Smilies on comments page (which I might get rid of, too many images)
PS: I am using the latest nightly build.
Leave a comment. What do you think?
WordPress is getting ready for a WordPress Backup Week July 23-30, 2005 and I was wondering if you were going to update this great script? The link to download it is broken and I think it would be of value.
Thanks!
Quite groovy.
You made me think long and hard about ditching MT for WP. What do you say regarding switching, actually, MT works fine, and I sure would miss all those plugins, but since WP is PHP and i am okay with that more than I am with perl, I have been thinking.
It will take a lot of time to convert from MT to WP, and really its just the temptation to side with the underdog, rather than anything else, I guess.
But I would appreciate your inputs as to whether there is any compelling reason why I *should* switch.