Comments on: Wordpress v. Movable Type: Call for Comments

By: Eoin O'Dell

Eoin O'Dell — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:04:17 +0000

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.

By: Prolific Programmer

Prolific Programmer — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:53:13 +0000

@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.

By: Gideon

Gideon — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:47:34 +0000

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.

By: Mark Stosberg

Mark Stosberg — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:36:09 +0000

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

By: Kevin Jon Heller

Kevin Jon Heller — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:27:14 +0000

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…

By: John Armstrong

John Armstrong — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:53:53 +0000

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…