Moved to Wordpress
When I first started blogging, I used a content management system called Mambo (a variant of which is called Joomla) to run my sites. That system worked pretty well at first, but had a real problem with comment spam and wasn’t compatible with a lot of useful blogging clients I wanted to run.
Last August, I moved my blog content from Mambo over to Movable Type. That worked a lot better than Mambo did, at least for my needs, but had issues as well. While blogging clients “sort of” worked with Movable Type, I got a lot of errors when submitting posts. I was also frustrated with how long it took to “publish” the site and how many times publishing was necessary to make even minor changes.
This past week, I began investigating WordPress, a free application that is widely used for blogging. WordPress seemed to work much better with blogging clients than Movable Type. WordPress is also “dynamic” and doesn’t require me to constantly “publish” the site to make changes. So far, it seems a much better fit than Movable Type.
This is not to say that I don’t have issues with WordPress. If you look through the older articles on this site, you’ll probably notice a very glaring issue that I’ve not put too much effort into correcting. Specifically, the articles I imported from Movable Type (in many cases, but not all) have strange line breaks. I’ve fixed some of the worst examines manually, but others I’ve left alone, figuring I may eventually delete the oldest content on the site anyway.
In any case, I’m hoping this move will allow me to do a much better job of regularly posting articles to the blog. Time will tell, of course.