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Wordpress v. Movable Type: Call for Comments

posted by Dave Hoffman

We’re considering switching our blogging platform from MT to WP. We’d like to solicit your input to the extent that you’ve used both platforms, or are currently a WP user, as to the advantages and disadvantages we ought to be considering. Please comment here or send an email to concurringopinions@gmail.com. Thanks!


 August 29, 2008 at 3:12 pm   Posted in: Blogging   Print This Post Print This Post

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  1. John Armstrong - August 29, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    I have nothing but praise for WordPress, except the sometimes-overzealous actions of the Akismet spam filter. Admittedly, a certain amount of my love for that platform is its support for LaTeX input, and you don’t really have much use for mathematical formulæ, but still…

  2. Kevin Jon Heller - August 29, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    We have recently switched over to WordPress, and I really like it. It’s very easy to use with its WYSIWYG editor and it’s a snap to customize. Highly recommended, to steal a line from good Mr. Solum…

  3. Mark Stosberg - August 30, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    Can you say more about what it is attracts you to WordPress over Movable Type?

  4. Gideon - August 31, 2008 at 1:47 am

    I went from Blogger to Typepad to Wordpress (granted, I have not used Movable Type) and I wholly recommend Wordpress.

    It is easy to use, easy to set up, easier to customize and the plugins are limitless in what they permit you to do. There are also thousands of themes to use.

    It is also free and has fantastic support.

  5. Prolific Programmer - August 31, 2008 at 8:53 pm

    @Gideon, typepad is movable type.

    I went from movable type to typo and am pretty satisfied — http://typosphere.org. I hear people are happy with wordpress and blogger as well.

  6. Eoin O'Dell - September 14, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    I wholeheartedly agree with the preferences for WordPress (WP) over MoveableType (MT). When I was thinking about starting Cearta, I checked out various platforms, including WP and MT, and I came strongly down in favo(u)r of WP, and as Gideon says, WP is “easy to use, easy to set up, easier to customize [than WP] and the plugins are limitless in what they permit you to do. There are also thousands of themes to use”. In using it, I have discovered two further advantages.

    First, it is very easy to get at the html if you want to do thinks like hack the sidebars. This, combined with the various themes (and, I am told, the ease with which a theme can be written) means that you can very easily improve your look and feel.

    Second, at present, someone who wants to refer to one of your MT pages, and to give you an official trackback, must do two things: link to the post, and insert a link to the trackback url. On WP, a link to the page is also a link to the trackback. This doesn’t really matter to me, as Cearta is a much smaller affair than Concurring Opinions. But if you are interested in online rankings via technorati or similar, an integrated trackback is crucial.

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