Mashable has an entry comparing MovableType4 with WordPress 2.2. Fairly interesting, they draw WordPress as a winner just now but expect close competition. I used MT for quite a few years, and got on with it fine I suppose, but, having made the switch over, I think I would take a lot of convincing to go back. I find WordPress to be much more accessible, and I think that it has a degree of flexibility to it that MT lacks.
The Pages system in WP means that I can integrate things into the rest of my site much more easily than I ever could with MT, and, what’s more, if I want to use any of the blog features outside of the directly controlled pages, all I have to do is a php include to the header files, and the full WP functionality is exposed. *very* simple, plus it’s all written in PHP rather than perl so I actually have a half a chance of understanding it.
I’ll test out MT 4, because we will need to do that anyway for Laura’s site, but I most likely won’t change. I noticed in the mashable article that they mark down WP because its anti-spam solution is not built in. Kinda true, but then that adds flexibility, and the Akismet system is very easy to install as a plugin (in fact the plugin is distributed with the initial download, you just need to get the API key.) And, what’s more, it’s been a lot more effective at stopping me seeing spam than MT ever was.
So there you go. Blog wars. hah.
In other news, today marks the 25th birthday of the CD. Happy birthday CD! Gosh, where would we be without those shiny bits of metal, eh? Vista would sure fill a lot of floppy disks.
