Tuesday 12 July 2011
Thinking About WordPress
Movable Type seems to heading towards a dead end, and I’m thinking about jumping ship to the much more popular WordPress. There used to be a great community built around MT, creating plugins and helping out when things go wrong… but where are all these people now? Using WordPress!
After a few upgrades to my copy of MT and my web server, the Action Streams plugin that powers the LifeStream part of my site appears to be broken. I can’t work out how to fix it as there’s no one out there any more! Also the site search has been broken for months. I’ve hidden those sections since they’re useless until I can somehow fix them.
So I am starting to think seriously about dropping Movable Type once and for all, and install WordPress 3.2.x instead.
I switched last month after holding out with MT and Melody, but now I'm glad I switched. As you say, WP has a better developer community and there isn't the problem of old plugins breaking.
Speaking of which, I tried to log in using Typepad and Twitter here – Typepad said the site isn't registered and your Twitter plugin is out of date.
I'm really not surprised.
I've certainly let a few things get out of date, since I really don't spend the same time keeping everything working as it should, and when I've updated Perl it's broken a few other parts of the site.
There's no easy way to tell what plugins need updating in MT, or what version of a Perl module is needed, that is something that has always driven me mad.
I'm getting a ton of errors in my activity log from the Action Streams plugin as it just doesn't work any more, and I don't know what to do to fix it. Same with the Fast Search plugin.
I'm so done with MT right now. I just need to find time to put on WordPress and fiddle with the templates so they look roughly like this site does now.
I've never been a MT kinda guy, granted I came to the blogging arena pretty late to the game and have always used WordPress.
Saying that Drupal, Joomla, and DotNetNuke I've always found to be fantastic. Just a case of putting the right software in the right place. For the average blog site, stick to WP.
I remember you using MT many moons ago when CMS was still quite a young subject, it's a shame some of these CMSs come and go. CMS Made Simple is another one that used to be great, but WP seem to have gotten all of their business.
A reason to move to WP: my Gravatar would have worked fine
If you're looking to tweak a template have a look at themeforest.net some great stuff real cheep too.
It is a interesting post! Appreciate your that! Using sincerely Luke aka couchgool.