{"id":98,"date":"2004-04-04T16:56:37","date_gmt":"2004-04-04T21:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2004\/04\/switchers\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T07:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T07:28:11","slug":"switchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2004\/04\/switchers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Switchers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do my very best to visit every new WordPress blog, and it’s espescially exciting to see and read about people coming to WP from other systems. The other day I highlighted a few notable WP-powered blogs<\/a> on my own blog. To complement our Testimonials section<\/a>, I’ve started a new category here on the blog just for highlighting switchers. Here are three to get us started:<\/p>\n

Memoirs of a Geek<\/a><\/p>\n

Plus, because of the archiving style built-into MovableType the site was swelling up in size with web files all over the place. I\u2019m not a fan of statically created pages at all. I think it leads to bloating and to make changes, you have to rebuild every single one of them pages. So, I have been looking for another blogging tool to run this site off of. I looked at all of the major players other than MT and found WordPress to be the best out of all of them. I checked it out and even created a test install with some of my existing entries. I thought MT was easy to install and setup. MAN was I wrong! This stuff set up in very few steps and importing my entries was a cinch. This default template is rather snazzy and XHTML compliant right out of the box which I never got on a fresh install with MT.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cold Fury<\/a><\/p>\n

Man, this thing flies – for posting, anyway. Friggin\u2019 turbocharged blogware – I love it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

atmaspheric<\/a><\/p>\n

Not only can you edit and delete without worry, you can actually edit your posts right from your own page. You don\u2019t login to a control panel like MT in order to make an edit, you can click the continuously helpful Edit This under each post title. I can get right in, make the change and republish the post in seconds – with minimal effort.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you have switched from another system to WordPress and blogged about it be sure to send me a note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Highlighting a few recent converts to WordPress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[415],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-switchers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-1A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10476,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/10476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}