[pm-h] moveable type versus wordpress

G. Wade Johnson gwadej at anomaly.org
Thu Apr 9 17:55:29 PDT 2009


On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:30:57 -0500
"Russell L. Harris" <rlharris at oplink.net> wrote:

> I looked at blogging packages a couple of years ago.  Back then, 
> WordPress appealed to me.  But over the past year or so, WordPress
> has been issuing a new release every few months, and upgrading to a
> new release can take an hour or more.  Such devotion may be merited
> by a religion, but not by a blogging tool.
> 
> Somehow I overlooked Moveable Type, together with the fact that MT is 
> written in Perl.
> 
> My blog has static content -- an article is added once or twice a
> week, and there is no provision for comments or user interaction.  A
> visitor should be able to see an index of article titles, and he
> should be able to print out individual articles.
> 
> While I am searching with Google to seet the pros and cons of
> switching from WP to MT, I thought it might be well to inquire as to
> how MT rates among members of the Perl community.

I don't know about everyone else. I've been using MT for quite a while.
My biggest problem is that it works well enough that I forget to
upgrade.

G. Wade
-- 
When in doubt, use brute force                       -- Ken Thompson


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