You might notice that the blog looks a bit different tonight.
Scott decided that it would be fun to go to the WordPress Upgrade Party that the inimitable Matt M held Wednesday night. I figured, it was a good time to see if I actually could port the blog over from Movable Type to WordPress. With 1220+ entries in the database, I was more than a little worried that trying to move them all would be hell and result in me having one massively screwed-up blog.
Well, I was wrong. The process was unbelievable pain free. Absolutely everything just worked. Amazing. I’m so used to tech stuff almost-but-not-quite working; for something to NOT screw up or require weird hacking to get it right felt…. wrong.
At any rate, I got the data ported over last night; tonight was the fun stuff. Find a theme, customize the sidebar, add a few plug-ins. The move is about 98% done, but if you catch any weirdness or bad links, please let me know. I still need to re-add the comment policy and a link to my old travel blog, plus decide what kind of spam filtering I’ll be doing. Akismet is up and running, but that may or may not be enough.
So…. after 4+ years, it’s farewell to Movable Type. I feel a little sad about it, but it’s time for a change.
Like it? Hate it? Let me know!
Mid-life crisis blog change. 🙂
Well, theme reminds me of those CSS demo galleries, but then again maybe I just need to get used to it.
P.S. Amazon wish list link is broken.
P.P.S. Congratulations on the switch to WP. Keep up n00bs updated about your experiences with it.
I fixed the wish list, thanks for the heads-up on that.