Movable Type 3.2
I was playing around with the 3.2 release of Movable Type, and, wow, is it much slicker than the 2.6 series. The plugin support is sweet & there’s a bunch of default plugins to prevent comment spam (possibly the most annoying thing to a blogger). A bit back I was considering switching over to Wordpress after seeing it in action, but now I’m not as sure.
The big downside is the licensing behind MT 3.x. Several of my friends host blogs here and their license no longer allows for that in the free edition. I’m not making any money off this endeavor, so I’m not much inclined to shell out cash for a publishing system. Of course, we could all just move to LiveJournal, but I don’t think we’re angsty or goth enough.
September 14th, 2005 at 12:05 am
Glad to hear 3.2’s left a good impression… we’re pretty flexible in finding a license for people (and the free version does support an unlimited number of blogs) so feel free to get in touch with our licensing team if you’d like to get all your friends upgraded.
September 14th, 2005 at 7:36 am
I am both angsty and goth enough, but livejournal is too slow.
September 14th, 2005 at 11:41 am
Does MT support multiple blogs with multiple authors? I tend to host just a bunch of small personal blogs.
September 14th, 2005 at 12:49 pm
I lika the word press.
PHP is easy to deal with.
September 14th, 2005 at 1:33 pm
Yeah, but I kinda hate PHP. It is the worst language I’ve had to deal with, aside from PL/SQL.
September 14th, 2005 at 9:37 pm
Why such a PHP hata?
Having used MT 2.6 and WordPress 1.5, I prefer WordPress - plugins and themes are easy to write and ubiquitous (I’ve had anti-comment spam for months although it’s not built-in) and I hate having to do rebuilds in MT. This was reinforced by my experience writing plugins for both - WordPress was much easier to deal with; the MT plugin API seems to be behind and is much less natural.
September 15th, 2005 at 11:47 am
Until recently I have been praising Wordpress and still believe they have a great set of templates and styles as well as hacks to be implemented. However, Moveable Type seems to be preferred by so many. Is there a good resource site someone can point me to?:) (not one by moveable type but someone who uses it)
Thanks.
September 16th, 2005 at 5:16 am
I agree that PHP is a pathetic excuse for a computer language, but like Windows, despite being mediocre, it’s everywhere. Being everywhere is indeed a nice feature.
For what it’s worth, I’ve just released a WordPress plugin which allows you to maintain blog content in files, rather than in the DB. I find it so much easier to create and edit with my favorite editor than in a small box. Perhaps you’d find it useful? I could use someone other than me giving it a go.
http://regex.info/blog/other-writings/wordpress-file-based-posts-plugin/
September 16th, 2005 at 5:17 am
FYI, I noticed the following on the bottom of the preview-comments page:
MT::App::Comments=HASH(0×810b218) Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at lib/MT/Template/Context.pm line 1187.