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Good bye Movable Type

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Finally, I said good bye to Movable Type and switched to Wordpress. It took a while to figure out the right steps to migrate from Movable Type to Wordpress so that I won’t lose the traffic from old links. After looking at various options discussed in Importing from Movable Type to WordPress, I wrote a small PHP script to generate .htaccess redirect rules for all my posts, and wrote the output of that script to the .htaccess file. I still need to figure out a way to enable comment notifications and subscriptions on my Slicehost account. I am pleased with my experience. I guess I am late to discover how simple/better Wordpress is, when compared to Movable Type 4.

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August 7th, 2008 at 5:28 am

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Comment by Anand at 2008-08-08 13:49:31

LOL. I was actually wondering if I should move to MT :)

 
Comment by Jeremy at 2008-08-08 15:06:57

Why do you say wordpress is better?

Comment by subbu at 2008-08-08 15:51:14

I find MT4 themes too complicated, and there were not enough good themes I could quickly adopt. At a personal level, I’m not a Perl geek.

 
 
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