My week month-ish with Wordpress

I’ve been working with Wordpress for a week now, and I’m having trouble deciding if I made the right move by switching from Movabletype. There are definite benefits, but also a few drawbacks. I’m especially curious about my decision because I hadn’t really given the newest version MT a thorough test-drive. Anyway- here are some of my thoughts.

+1 Auto-Save

I love this feature (although I’m pretty sure it was also implemented in the newest release of MT). I can’t say how many times I’ve started a post, then been logged out for whatever reason and lost an entire post in MT. Wordpress doesn’t do it often, but often enough while I’m writing so that I at least don’t have to start completely anew.

+1 k2

The guys over at binarybonsai have done an excellent job putting together a nice, flexible framework for WP blogs. It’s really nice looking without any tweaks at all too, which is something I was sort of looking for. I’m still sort of digging in, so I don’t have much to say other than my first impressions are positive.

+1 Email to blog

I’ve wanted this feature in MT for forever. It’s not always prudent to log into your private blog and start typing away, but if your entry could be cleverly disguised as writing an e-mail…

-1 Template Tags

It’s mainly due to a lack of familiarity, I guess, but I just found customizing templates in Movabletype to be so much easier and so much more natural to me. The fact that I still only know the very basics of PHP isn’t much of a help either, but I think MT is a little more user friendly in this regard.

-1 No multiple blogs

One of the things I loved about MT was the ability to use multiple blogs on the same MT installation. It was just another way to further organize my data and made blog-specific formatting really easy. Rather than adjusting the formatting based on category.

That about wraps it up for now. To tell the truth, this post has been almost three weeks in the making, so I’ve totally lost my train of thought here. I may come up with some more comparisons later, but for now I think I’ll just publish this nonsense so that you all can read it.