Goodbye Movable Type; Server Maintenance
August 26th, 2007
I paid for a Movable Type license a few years ago, but I switched to WordPress.  I’ve been running WP on another project for almost a year now, and I like it better, so here we are. I’m using a theme from the ThemeViewer library now, but I’ll work on customizing my own.
Things that just made sense to switch:
- Akismet spam filter - I was getting hundreds of comment spams on MT and Akismet does a good job of just getting rid of most everything.
- Adding non-blog pages with the same theme is super easy.
- It seems like WordPress launches more features and fixes more quickly.
- Automatic Google sitemaps generation with the Google Sitemaps plugin.
The reason this came about today was that my server has been getting craptacularly slow, and I decided this morning to do something about it. I rewrote some code on DealTuner (thanks Serge for your help) and just decided to swap over blog software while I was at it.
Enjoy! You’ll be able to read my trash more quickly and with more stability now.
Nice! Take that Movable Type!
Why don’t you tell’em to give Six Apart a wedgey while you are at Nice? Or a spit ball that will really get back at them!