Switched to Wordpress
Well, this page looks a bit different now and that’s a good thing. I switched from Movable Type to WordPress.
I switched mostly because I was losing the war on comment spam and WordPress looked cool. I liked the ability to hack on PHP to make it do what I want. I’ve been impressed with the number of helpful features it has and overall seems to have a much cleaner design on the front and back end. Since about 99% of my comments are spam, I’ll be using the moderated comments feature. I love not having not “rebuild†all the time and the editor is much more full-featured.
My Geocaching Blog is still in Movable Type, but I’ll probably move that over too once I confirm that my scripts to automatically pull my entries into there still work.
The one thing I miss is the ability to easily have multiple blogs in one installation, but I’m sure they’ll work that out eventually.
Update: Grr, somehow I managed to accidentally delete this post. Thank God for browser caches.
October 12th, 2004 at 10:00 am
Well, if it’s any help, i’ve been running Wordpress for some time now. It’s far from perfect, but it does have a number of hack-friendly features. My only big complaint is that upgrading it can be very painful, but it’s been a while since I’ve had to do that.
If you want I can send you my blacklist words. There’s only seven of them, but they’ve managed to nail all of my comment spam. (Ok, that and the fact that I mail comments to myself.)