MT-lover needs convincing!

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    19 years, 4 months ago

    I have used Movable Type since it was born. I like WP too, but as an intensive user of Mt, I have some questions!

    – how easy is it to customise websites you your own design? In MT, I simply design the page using HTML and add in the MT code (e.g. <MTEntries>) and that’s it. Is it the same for WP?
    – The archives are generated on the fly, as far as I can tell. Does
    that mean thyat Google is unaware of them?
    – MT is very good at search engine popularity (for example, I’m
    regularly top of google for many of my topics on my personal weblog). How good is WP?
    – A flipside of MT “selling out” is that their career now depends on
    MT working well and selling well. I get great customer service and a great MT community for my ?￡40.

    The two concerns I have with MT is the rebuilding time, the comment submission time and spam. My installations run slower than I would like as I have over 1500 posts and 2000 comments on one of them…

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  • I have around 1400 posts and 4100 comments. No rebuilding.

    Google hasn’t the smallest problem with WP code. There are many many WP blogs that rank #1 for their posts too.

    WP is free. And staying that way. And you don’t have some funky licence to agree to about authors / blogs and limits.

    Spam ? what’s spam ? ??

    And customisation ? If you know html and css, you are well on the way.

    Have you browsed Codex ?
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/FAQ

    I’m sure others will be along too ??

    – Content-related code is different, but design issues are the same. We still use X/HTML, CSS and so on.

    – Yes archives are generated as requested, but that’s the same no matter the client requesting it (whether your web browser or a searchbot).

    – Anecdotal piece on search engine popularity. Take it as you will.

    – Why do you want to pay for a great community, when you get this one for free?

    Podz and Kafkaesqui said so much so eloquently, but I must add my two cents.

    I too, used MovableType for about a year, until the Spring of 2004. I could make MT purr. But all during that time, I found myself wrestling with the rebuilds, the templating system, the difficulty in skinning the site. When I ditched MT in favor of WP, even after importing two years’ worth of entries, the WP files took up only about 35MB of server space, as opposed to the bloated MT files which took up 79MB of space, almost my entire alotment back then of 100MB.

    More than ever, now that WP is in its present incarnation, setting up, designing for, and configuring WP is easier than it has been in the past. Through the templating system, Pages (see below), and various plugins, you truly can make WP your own, and you can make it whatever you want it to be. The key is the PHP coding and the plugins. Sure, there are plugins for MT, and there are some plugins for MT that don’t exist in WP. But that won’t last. New WP plugins are being created and existing ones improved on every day.

    The “Page” system for static page content is brilliant, IMHO. WP (unless you have an agressive plugin) places little strain on the server, unlike MT with its rebuilds. While MT has created a workaround to make MT dynamic, there’s an art to getting THAT to work.

    And has been intimated above, WP was free yesterday, it’s free today and it will be free tomorrow. And as long as that’s a given, more people will be devoting their considerable energies and talents to making it better as the days and years go by.

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