Yes, this blog looks a bit different. After all the troubles I’ve had upgrading to Moveable Type 3.3, I’ve decided to give WordPress a try. It installed straight out of the box at the first attempt, and slurped up the entire 1500+ post MT archive.
At the moment it’s still the default templates and style, apart from the header image, and looks just a little bit bland at the moment. I had a heavily customised template in MT which was accumulating cruft and getting harder to maintain.
Sooner or later I’ll get round to customising this one, once I get my head round the way WordPress templates work.
Yes I do know that all the archive permalinks are currently broken. The new installation has a completely different archive structure. I believe it is possible to fix this, and this is currently on my to-do list.
This is a test to see if I can post comments.
Looks good. It’s reassuring that you found it straightforward, as I need to update from MT2.6 too.
You may know, but the RSS feed may be broken. Bloglines seems to be struggling with the .rdf one. I unsubbed/resubbed with ../feed/, which seems to work, but others mightn’t have realised (it took me four days to spot it!)
How did you like Porcupine Tree? I spotted a face I vaguely recognised as I went in, but couldn’t remember the name or connection. Before I realised it was you, you’d vanished.
I’m still fond of MT myself, but I suspect your upgrade situation was the exception and not the rule. At any rate, let me know what you think of WordPress; I’ve heard many good things about it.