WordPress vs MovableType

gabble
(@gabble)

22 years, 1 month ago

I am looking for a blog system, and WP & MT are good candidates for a couple of sites I am mastering.
These days, I am giving WP a try, and I am very impressed with it.
I still haven’t tried MT, though… it’s features seem powerful as well, so I would like to ask you the reasons why people could choose WordPress over MT.
I can see there are lots of MT switchers posts in the forum, and a report from people with a real world experience (WP&MT), would be of great avail to me.
Also, I would appreciate a word from WP developers, what are WP strengths over other blogging engines.
Thanks in advance for any input you will offer!

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Laughinglizard
(@laughinglizard)

22 years, 1 month ago

http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/2004/1/8/why-would-one-switch-from-moveable-type-to-wordpress/

Mark (podz)
(@podz)

22 years, 1 month ago

WP is fast. I could only stand seeing the word “Rebuilding” for so long with MT.
WP ‘looks and feels’ nicer. MT always felt clunky to me. (Odd thing to say about a piece of software, but there you go).
WP doesn’t need to know server paths, or to hide away in the cgi-bin.
As I have said before, WP does exactly what it says on the tin ” WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your software, not fight it.” I never found that with MT.
Just my 2p 🙂

atmasphere
(@atmasphere)

22 years, 1 month ago

I was an MT user for quite a while and once I started playing around with WP there was no looking back. I was able to get some serious assistance, in short order from Alex (on the dev team) which enabled my transfer to be simple and professional. My pages now redirect straight to the same posts, but in WP.
Rebuilding is now history. That was one of the biggest pains… the bigger your site grows in MT the longer you have to wait to rebuild. Make a change to a template – rebuild all the posts, which in my case was close to 2000 files. Now I just post and don’t look back. I can tweak my template and just have the site ready – instantly.
Spam in comments are also a major issue and now a thing of the past.

Sushubh
(@sushubh)

22 years, 1 month ago

i say 1 thing…
i am an idiot and could not get MT to work on my server.
WP worked fine.

Anonymous

22 years, 1 month ago

Interesting to read
“12) WP spits out extremely standards compliant code”
on a page that has an unterminated <div> inside the <head> tag.

Sushubh
(@sushubh)

22 years, 1 month ago

he never claimed his blog was standard compliant.
a wp in it’s original form spits out just that.

carthik
(@carthik)

22 years, 1 month ago

LaughingLizard’s post was originally in response to the questions I asked him, which are very similar to yours, and I decided to give it a shot, and here I am!
I love the absolute control the WP blog gives me over hacks and all the way php code is more newbie friendly than perl code(which is waht MT uses)
No rebuild, ever more, and the open user community, where one can ask the stupidest questions are all advantages.
I am sorry if I am butting in, ’cause you were looking for a developer’s perspective, but I couldn’t help it 🙂
I have set up a demoblog , WordPress demo where you can login as admin and play around, and see if its your thing at all.