Just curi­ous, from the links you’ve listed, is Mov­able Type not meet­ing your needs?

Posted by Anil Dash at 6pm on 30.03.05

Hello Anil - I’m pon­der­ing switch­ing to Word­Press at the moment because I’ve had some nasty server migra­tion has­sles which mean I’ll have to fully rein­stall Mov­able Type soon, so I thought I’d see if Word­Press might suit me better (that five minute install is a draw).

It’s less to do with Mov­able Type not meet­ing my needs, more that I fancy a change and the oppor­tu­nity to tinker with a CMS I’m not famil­iar with. The one thing most likely to sway me is com­ment spam, which, by the looks of things, WP with var­i­ous plu­g­ins han­dles better than MT with MTBlacklist.

So, yeah, I might well switch, if I can find the time to tinker with WP until I get the site pretty much iden­ti­cal to the way it is now, and if I can find out for sure that the anti-​spam stuff is better with WP; but, more likely, I’ll stick with MT due to a com­bi­na­tion of iner­tia and loy­alty (I’ve been using MT since I switched from Blog­ger in 2002, so have warm feel­ings toward it.)

(Also, if you don’t mind me asking, do you often swoop down on poten­tial switch­ers? Con­jours an image of you in super­hero garb, pre­sum­ably in com­ple­men­tary shades of purple!)

Posted by Jack Mottram at 7pm on 30.03.05