Comments on: PERSONAL publishing alternatives?

By: smeg

smeg — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I've been blogging my thoughts on this all day. I think MT is going to lose a vast amount of it's community support now. Sites like this simply won't be paying for the licensing, and while the software won't stop you using it, it being illegal will!

By: SS

SS — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

A friend of mine, Donzilla, (http://equivocalcatharsis.com) has developed his own PHP based content management system that doesn't need an SQL backend. It's still in development, but he plans on releasing it on Source Forge soon. You might want to drop him a line. Equivocal Catharsis is currently powered by this yet-to-be-named blog software.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I use WordPress and have loved every single minute of it. While, I would personally never make a switch back to MT's way of doing things after being wooed by WP, I don't feel it's very much for beginners or those that are not comfortable with PHP. However, with 1.2 just on the horizon it might be a little more n00b friendly. Your site deals extensively with PHP so you would might like WordPress that much more.

I just converted my girlfriend's blog from MT to WP this past weekend and no kidding, the whole upgrade process took less than 10 minutes. From creating the new blog to importing the MT entries to making it live. Since you only edit one file (well, maybe two if you want to tweak the comments section a bunch), there is never a need to rebuild or wait for your post to show up. That sold me instantly.

If you want more reviews from MT > WP, you can check out the WP development blog.

http://wordpress.org/development/

Towards the bottom (mid-April) are quite a few people who have made the switch and wrote mini-reviews of it (myself included.)

By: Elaine

Elaine — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am recovering from a double whammy: my web host disable my Movable Type installation yesterday. Then, when I went to Movable Type to download the MT 3.0 I first read the license and decided it was time to move to WordPress.

I must say, WP is much easier to install than MT. Haven't done any customizing yet, but it doesn't look more difficult in theory.

By: orangeguru

orangeguru — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well looks like that SixApart has finally succeded to alienate most of the hardcore MT community?! For months there where mixed messages, bad communication and at the end a very high price tag. I guess Textpattern and WordPress seem the likely inheritors of the MT throne. Even the new blogger will pick up many refuges … my the scriptygoddess with us all the way …

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I switched to textpattern a few weeks ago and have been thrilled with it. The way it works is somewhat different to wordpress and was more my style.

Of course, if you *wanted* to fork out $150.00, MT is, imo, not the way to go; expressionengine is much better for the money.

By: Blinger

Blinger — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I'll probably switch to expression engine since I was already looking for a way to have users self-register and start a blog.

however several users over at http://forum4bloggers have been moving to textpattern in anticipation of MT 3.0 and are very happy with it.

Two thumbs down to MT 3.0

By: tubedogg

tubedogg — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you're looking for free alternatives, you might check out http://www.b2evolution.net/ b2evolution. I just discovered it this afternoon but after trying the demo, it kinda seems like it could be MT2 on steroids. I'm definitely going to be downloading and it trying it out somewhere.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am also using Textpattern, and I love it. I finally have a program that seems to think the way I think; it's still in "gamma" release – somewhere between beta and 1.0 stages – but it's already incredible, and improves with every release.

I hope to be a viable part of its community as it grows.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think my biggest issues right off the bat with WordPress and Textpattern are they are designed for ONE blog. (Unless I'm doing something wrong). One of my complaints about this whole thing with MT is the restriction on number of blogs/authors. I have (at last count) 8 blogs – two of which are hardly updated, and I could probably say goodbye to. But both my husband and I use it – so that's a minimum of two authors and six blogs. I need something that can at least do that for me to make the jump.

I should probably add (I might even revise the post to say this). I'm not against paying for my content management software. I'm just not quite thrilled with the feature list of MT. Sure there's a lot that it does – but there's a lot that it DOESN"T do. Actually – that's what most of THIS blog has been about. MAKING MT do what I want. And usually in very kludge ways because I perfer to code in PHP.

I would HAPPILY pay, even what they're asking, if it would do all this on it's own. I have to WORK to get MT to do what I want – and for that I'm asked to pay a premium??