Moving the blog to WordPress?
December 8th, 2005
Even though you haven’t seen me post on this blog recently, I have been busy deleting comment spam all the time. My MoveableType installation is pretty old, and the SpamFiltering solution is quite old too. Everything runs on a creaky server out of my office. Also I’m not to fond of fiddling with the layout of the blog (although web visitors might have noticed some changes) because it means I have to republish the complete site.
So I have been thinking about moving to a new blog system. While I have some experience with TextPattern and Typo, I would like to try out WordPress too.
My main interest is to keep the permalinks to the 450+ articles I have written in the past and secondly to make my life administering this blog easier. Also I want to drop categories and move towards a tag-based organization of my content. I haven’t yet looked at WordPress in detail to see if I can keep the permalinks, but this is something that went onto my todo-list as of 30 seconds ago. Anyone out there know the answer?
Technorati Tags: blog, typo, wordpress
Entry Filed under: Ramblings
3 Comments Add your own
1. Michael B | December 9th, 2005 at 00:13
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
assuming you have mod_rewrite, they’re a sinch to enable. There are also some wonderful plugins for combating comment spam. Zero spam gets through on my blogs as a result. I’m sure you’ll not look back if you switch to WP. Good luck.
2. Volker Weber | December 9th, 2005 at 00:24
Du hast Spam trotz CAPTCHA? Das liegt bei mir vielleicht im Bereich von einer Message im Monat.
Ansonsten: Migration “seitwärts” hat einen sehr schlechten ROI. :-)
3. Greenguy | December 20th, 2005 at 21:36
Even though I have a blogger account for personal use, I use wordpress for business stuff. Persoanlly I love Spam Karma. Nothing gets through, ever. Its the best one I have foudn out there.
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