[pm-h] moveable type versus wordpress

[Will Willis]

Ditto on the upgrading. I've considered moving to a hosted solution for this
reason.
Have a look at Motion, http://movabletype.com/motion/ their newest (and more
*social*) offering.

Dig into the code, it's a great code base.

While on the subject, I found this interesting too:
http://shaderlab.com/six-apart-core-javascript/


-Will


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:55 PM, G. Wade Johnson <gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote:

> 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
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