Comments on: Why would one switch from Moveable Type to WordPress?

By: Sid

Sid — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:59:41 +0000

If we talk about the creation of pages on the fly in WP then I would like to point out here that MT is not at all lacking in this rather, it has both the options, to publish the pages statically as well as on the fly. In WP, if you need to use single installation to manage the multiple blogs then you have to install the WPMU which seems to be a hack more than a feature to extend the capability of managing multi-blogs on single installation. The worst part is at the DB when it creates a set or around 11 tables per blog. So, if you have 10 blogs in the system then you will have (11 x 10) + 9 = 119 tables in DB to support the single WPMU installation. Its really a big demerit as the single system that no. of tables going to grow tremendously.

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Nurm's blog — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:49:09 +0000

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By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 23:22:58 +0000

You made a lot of excellent points. There is still so much about MT that I’m just used to, necessary or not, that the idea of switching is rather frightening. I believe that I’m going to give it a serious try anyway. Thanks for an excellent post!

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:29:48 +0000

I’ve been using MovableType since I started blogging, and have never had any problems with it that I didn’t cause. Rebuilding is painful, I’ll admit, but it’s not something that one has to do that often. I think that MT provides a lot of flexibility, and I’ve seen it used as a great CMS (http://www.macthemes.net).

I don’t think I’ll ever leave MT. It’s smart, well-supported, robust, venerable, and—most importantly of all—already set up to be just the way that I like it. I haven’t seen anything else that comes close.

By: Sherri

Sherri — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:04:04 +0000

After playing around with blogger, I installed MT because it was all the rage. It was my first big PERL install, with a few large PHP installs before it; I thought it was pretty hard to install as a newbie to web packages.

Once installed, making it do the things I wanted, and look the way I wanted was also a challenge. I’d have to make changes in SO many places, then REBUILD to see if I did it correctly. If not, go through the files again, then REBUILD again, ect

Not all changes required edits to numerous files, but some did require making an edit to one file, then changing archive preferences…REBUILD.

I’ve made changes to my WP blog, and so far they’ve only involved changing 2 files, index.php and template-functions. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before I add a wp hacks file, so that will make it three. Only having to make edits to three files, compared with how many I had to with MT is SO nice! Especially since I don’t have to suffer through REBUILD torture (YEA!)

MT’s forum is pretty helpful; many times the responses came in fast too. I will agree with Adam Lasnik that WP’s forum isn’t my favorite to work with as far as its functionality (but I was able to find search LOL). I still haven’t figured out how to post code to WP’s forum so that it will show up properly. There’s no PREVIEW in the forum, OR in comments…sigh (but I saw that someone requested it at least)!