Switched to WordPress
My blog is now powered by WordPress. The comment spam on the previous MovableType installation was getting out of hand, which I took as an opportunity to switch to an open source solution.
I also looked at Textpattern but decided to go with WP for the following reasons:
- TP is developed mostly by one guy, while WP lists several developers.
- The WP developement is more transparent, with a SourceForge project and a CVS repository.
- I’m not sure how open source TP really is or will be in the future: The license is not on the web site, this post claims it’s BSD, this one tries to explain how the license works without telling what the license actually is. See also here and here (”free for personal sites”). WP, on the other hand, is GPL. Period.
- With WP, I found it easier to customize permalinks into a format I like.
- Importing my MT data went more smoothly with WP.
PS: Comments are now enabled again.
Update: As of version g1.19, Textpattern is GPL.