Comments on: The Perils of Switching Blog Platforms

By: Vinny Carpenter

Vinny Carpenter — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 00:29:03 +0000

Hi Mark. I think a lot of people are moving to WordPress or just raving about it is because of the simplicity and the functionality. I have been using WordPress for over a year now and there is a plugin for absolutely anything and everything you would want to do. It's just unbelievable.
Plus one of the biggest reasons I moved from Blogger to WordPress was that I was in control of my destiny. I had the database and I could do whatever I wanted to with it and not rely on Blogger or TypePad or Blogware to offer some functionality or rely on their networks/servers.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:35:24 +0000

I'm just looking at moving from Movable Type to Wordpress myself. I currently have it staged on my workstation, but have to write some PHP code to handle what used to be done by a specialized MT plugin.
My big concern is making sure all the archived links point to the new site. I've done it once before when I moved from numbered posts to a more descriptive name.
Sean

By: Andy Abramson

Andy Abramson — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:01:53 +0000

There's the saying, if it not broken, don't fix it. I've thought about switching from TypePad and in the end the hassle doesn't equal the reason to change.

By: Mathew

Mathew — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:20:55 +0000

I think Dave Winer was writing about the need for standards too, after Typepad had server problems and a bunch of peoples' blogs went down for an extended period. He and others were talking about how it would be good to have a way of backing up archived posts and comments so that you could easily move servers in the event of a disruption — which is one of the benefits of running your own server as opposed to a hosted solution.