Wordpress
Since I couldn’t sleep due to my teeth I decided to take the plunge and convert my blog from MovableType over to Wordpress 1.2 which happened to be released this morning.
The transition was pretty painless. There is a great tutorial here which walks through the process. I ended up using this script to redirect my old static archives to their new dynamic Wordpress counterparts. At first I had some trouble redirecting the links to my old RDF and RSS syndication feeds however I found the following bit of mod_rewrite voodoo did the trick:
RewriteRule ^index.xml /blog/wp-rss2.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^index.rdf /blog/wp-rdf.php [QSA]
I still need to work on updating the default stylesheet but otherwise things seem pretty good. If anything seems broken drop me an email.
Your new blog looks good in WordPress. I too have been annoyed about the new Movable Type pricing structure. I have been thinking about changing as well. I’ve been debating between PostNuke, which I love because of all it’s features and I have lots of control over it, or something like WordPress, which is a little easier to set up and can probably import my entries a lot easier than PostNuke can.
The only thing I noticed so far is in your comments section. The right bar with all of your links and stuff is actually running over the space that you type your comments in. Other than that, it looks great.
Hey Jonah,
Good to hear from you – sorry I’ve been out of touch lately. As far as the problem with the comments section that is news to me. I can’t seem to duplicate the problem here in either IE 6 or FireFox. Just curious what browser and screen resolution are you using? I’ll be tweaking the default style sheets soon anyway so hopefully this will go away.
I’ve used PostNuke in the past but found it to be too much for my own needs. I’m pretty happy with WordPoress as it works well and has quite a few cool features that MT was lacking.