« Migration | Main | More on the platform comparison »

Test Runs
May 16, 2007    File under: Information Technology

So, for clarity, I'm going to run the blog on both platforms until June 1st, which is two weeks. During that time I should be able to feel out which platform is the right one for me.

Going into this, let me offer the following terms for consideration....

Movable Type pros:

  • cooler name; reference to Gutenberg really tasty;
  • my own long familiarity with Movable Type; I know the back end pretty well
  • I prefer the verbal indexing and category direction in MT (category directories are named by category rather than by number)
  • I prefer the way MT displays faceted categories
  • MT's admin seems more robust


Movable Type cons:

  • MT charging clients
  • MT back end becoming less accessible
  • MT mixes Perl and PHP, meaning you need to know two languages to have full access
  • fewer MT plugins

Wordpress pros:

  • Link management seems easier: I wish Movable Type had such an application built in
  • Link categorization
  • Got the ethics: favorite of open source communities
  • Admin seems friendlier and also more quickly flexible
  • PHP only means leaner codes
  • Cooler slogans

Wordpress cons:


  • Indexing, category directorization, &c, not verbal
  • Conflation of tags and categories in core WP
  • Collapse of nested categories/tags in lists
  • New to me

Ultimately, I think my decision will be based on the flexibility of category faceting and conditonal (category-based) formatting, though my sense of extensibility will come into play as well. How long will MT's Perl core be practical? How much more flexible will WP's PHP core be?

Thoughts welcome, indeed...

Posted by Jake Adam York at May 16, 2007 8:06 PM



COMMENTS

Hey!
I decided on WP because I like the open source aspect. (and I suffer from fee avoidance) Not that I’ve been using it very long. It does have a widget plugin for side bars that seems pretty handy. Brett uses it on his, but I prefer to mess with the code directly. I think you can change the naming structure for URL’s under options --> permalinks. (if that’s what you’re referring to) I haven’t bothered with it yet.

Well, best of luck! I can’t say I’d really look forward to switching platforms once I had one all figured out.
c.

Posted by: crystal at May 17, 2007 12:10 PM