I’m experimenting with WordPress, a GPL blogware that’s a lot faster and more solid than Movable Type. There’s a lot of controversy over the new Movable Type licensing terms, and I don’t want to weigh into all of that because I don’t care. I’m looking at other packages because MT is way too buggy and way too poorly designed for my purposes. The WordPress conversion was extremely easy – you just export your MT blog and import it, and the only problems I’ve encountered so far are with the hosting server, Hosting Matters, because they set default permissions too strictly.
WordPress accommodates zFeeder, the Robopundit software, extremely well. I’m still using the default template, and learning the tricks. Check out the experimental blog here: Mossback on WordPress.
I like the fast part, but what makes it more solid?
It’s a better design, based on php instead of Perl – there are no templates to compile, and it’s all done on-the-fly.
I like it. I’ve been using it for my this-year blog. It has some quirks, but that’s no doubt due to its still being under development. Also probably due to the fact that I don’t update it often enough.