Comments on: Switch

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Strange! MT 3.2 is teh first time since the start of comment and ping spam that I can rebuild my weblog and do stuff without running into 500 errors.

If you do switch, please have the same URL scheme or put redirects. Don’t leave 404’s around.

Also, I tried TextPattern but found it so very different in concept from MT or WP that it was a steep learning curve.

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

My comment has been held for moderation since “it’s the first time I have commented here”, NOT!

By: opip

opip — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations on the jealous thing working better now. I just popped in to say that I think you could get the same permalinks in wordpress if you can use mod_rewrite. Just in case the two of you ever need some time alone, to do some soul searching at some particular stage.

(and congratulations on the man made disasters post as well)

By: Danial

Danial — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I find it easy to work with wordpress.

By: anonymuis

anonymuis — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

you’d try WP out

By: sepoy

sepoy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Zack: the URL scheme is the only hurdle. My host doesn’t allow Symlinks so, there is that issue. Damn blogs. Whose idea was this anyways?
One q: why won’t my comment script allow the urls to post with the poster? I only have email set to zero.

As to WP, I have been using it in a number of blogs and am a big fan. Just CM is the MT captive.

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

You don’t need symlinks. You should be able to set up exactly the same URLs in WP by using mod_rewrite, redirect and .htaccess. Most of the work should be handled by WP itself, though you might need to tweak it.

In a lot of ways I like WP (which I use for the baby blog) better than MT but there are still a few reasons for me to stick to MT for my main blog (inertia, MathML, static pages etc.)

why won’t my comment script allow the urls to post with the poster?

I don’t know. I am using the following for commenter identity:

<$MTCommentAuthorLink show_email=”0″ no_redirect=”1″ encode_ampersands=”1″$>