I’m thinking of migrating this blog from its Movable Type platform to the WordPress platform. I’m about six years and two major versions behind MT, and its comment spam blacklist plug-in is failing or has become inadequate. That blacklist was incorporated into MT’s software by version 4 if not before, but I never upgraded (on the “ain’t broke, don’t fix” principle). Apparently the blacklist was written for 32-bit data bus systems and my host is moving to 64-bit, so something needs to be done. Rather than pay MT and upgrade incrementally, which might be necessary, it might behoove me to just go to WP in one step.
Are there still bloggers out there who have done this? All information gratefully accepted.
I moved to WP from MT in late 2007. It was a good call for me. WP does a great job (though not perfect) on catching spam, and while my first impressions of its interface were not positive, I have grown to greatly like it. It’s pretty easy to import your old blog into it as well, and picking a theme is simple. I say go for it. Good luck!
I haven’t migrated a blog. I migrated my personal web site, karenivy.net, from handwritten HTML to WordPress, and while it wasn’t as easy as I’d have liked, WordPress is generally very easy to work with. I’d be happy to kibitz at long range if you wanted advice or just to rant. Between my personal site and lifering.org, I now support two WordPress sites and find WordPress easy to use once you figure out how it organizes things.
I did it last year or so. Don’t know how much I’ll remember, but I can try. I don’t regret making the move.
Thanks for the encouragement, folks. I’ll yell for help or commiseration if/when I get there.
I like my current layout, dammit. I wonder if I can convert it to a WP theme.