 Comments: Thinking Out Loud...ish
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you can export your entire blog out of MT and into WP with a few clicks. WP is pretty easy to setup, like 5-10 minutes worth of work. Posted by han at March 2, 2006 05:26 PMAgree with Han--it's dead easy to setup WP and to import your history. And it's so much more easy to extend/configure/etc. (And with a combination of Spam Karma 2 and Akismet--both dead easy to set up--you probably won't see a spam a week that you have to deal with.) Posted by Chris McLaren at March 2, 2006 07:55 PMI vote for combining the personal and professional blogs. You can always use categories to let people pick what parts of the site they want to see. And if you switch to WP, see if you can keep from breaking existing inbound links (I have no idea what kind of mod_rewrite magic this entails). Posted by Drew at March 2, 2006 08:03 PMMT, WP. Tomato, tomato, how the hell would I know the diff. But I know that I love the design of this site. I love reading this, and generally I think blogs are the worst use of bytes ever. Yeah, I know, plus ca change and all, but I love the pro/pers split. And if your non-business stuff -- the knitting and photos and observations and links to video of you as a kidlet --goes to live journal, I'm never gonna see it. So keep the split. The central image on that page is cool as all get out, anyway. Posted by luddite and proud of it at March 2, 2006 10:46 PMHey Kelly Sue - So Wordpress 2.0 is really nice and it's dead easy to import all of your posts (like they said above) Spam protection is way better (Akisnet and SK2, as mentioned above) It's almost easier to start over and create a theme from near-scratch instead of trying to retrofit your existing MT templates - that's no problem if you are planning on a redesign. Making old inbound links work is tricky (but a good idea). I can give you a step by step if you like. I also posted info on my blog but it's partially technical. You'll might have to set up replacement plugins depending on how you are doing sidebar stuff. Also, you may want to combine personal and professional to make your life easier. You can always offer different feeds if you want. Ask me about any of this stuff if you want! I don't mind. Posted by Casey at March 2, 2006 11:45 PMWord Press is indeed very simple. And one of the best things about it is the latest version of Spam Karma which, since I installed it 2 weeks ago, has caught all but 2 spam posts and there are TONS that try to come through. It is an easy to use spam program and I love it. Posted by Carl V. at March 3, 2006 07:40 AMHi Kelly, I just installed WP not long ago on my site and I love it...very easy to manage and run. But I'm not making my whole site blog since Paypal codes and some other codes don't work well with it. I vote keep your current site as is. Finding a template as good as the one you have now is near impossible as most are ugly in my opinion. If you start over you'll prob. lose good traffic for awhile until your new one builds up. The more pages you have, the more traffic you get...so, if you start fresh...OUCH. Upgrading to the new MT might be best solution. Posted by Chris at March 3, 2006 03:18 PMI think combining professional and personal isn't a problem--it might've been a couple of years ago but blog culture has changed so very much since then that now I think people almost expect it. Especially if you've got a link on the front page for a resume/credit-listing like you'd mentioned up above. Posted by Greg McElhatton at March 6, 2006 03:56 PMyou know, my husband wrote a handy piece of code that keeps spamments off my MT blog. i use it along with blacklist and it works wonderfully. i never get spamments these days. at all. ever. Posted by franci at March 9, 2006 02:56 PM |
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