Carthik Sharma has written an excellent guide for moving from Movable Type to WordPress. It walks you through step by step of downloading, installing, and understanding WordPress. I also like that it has pointers to a lot of documentation resources outside of wordpress.org.
I also wanted to take this oppurtunity to say “howdy” to all the new visitors we’ve been getting the past couple of days. We’ve got a great community here and WordPress gets better every day. (That’s why we have nightly builds!) Please feel free to poke around and explore. If you try WordPress and decide not to use it, please leave a note on the forums or send me an email (m at this domain) with a little feedback as to why you made your decision. It’ll help us make WordPress even better in the future.
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On Movable Type 3.0
The pricing scheme accompanying MT 3.0 isn’t as disastrous as it seemed, after a clarification by SixApart — though it remains expensive. I’m waiting for the dust to settle before I decide if I upgrade to MT 3.0, move to WordPress, or stay with MT 2…
Trackback from Climb to the Stars on May 15, 2004
More WordPress Hints and Tips
WordPress Tutorial Series
Francey Designs: WordPress!
Francey has added WordPress to the list of blog applications that her template generation system works with.
Found at Weblog Tools Collection
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Version 0.2 Functional Specifications
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Trackback from New Trommetter Times on May 17, 2004