Goodbye Movable Type

Today I switched jarango.com over to Wordpress. This site had been using Movable Type since 2002; in those days I’d been happy enough with MT to make a donation to Ben and Mena Trott (before they became Six Apart). When MT became a commercial product, I stuck with it out of loyalty to the platform. However, I’ve never been happy with the way MT handles comments. Also, while having the site rendered as static files had been a plus at the beginning, site growth had made refreshes very slow at this point.

The last straw came last weekend. After having spent considerable time upgrading to the most recent version of MT—in hopes of re-enabling site comments—and liveblogging the Panama Canal Expansion referendum, I found out that the Typekey authentication was now not accepting comments on the site at all. I’m fed up with MT at this point, and not willing to put any more time into it.

So now, Wordpress. The move has been relatively painless; Dreamhost makes installation absurdly easy. However, there may be breakage in the site content… if you find anything screwed up, please let me know. (I know the archives aren’t working well with Firefox… ~~gonna fix this over the weekend, when I don’t have a deluge of emails to answer.~~ Fixed!) The site’s theme is adapted from one Jorge Yau and I developed for BootStudio’s Spanish-language blog (this means only one codebase to maintain).

Downside: I now run the risk of fiddling away countless hours playing with Wordpress’ myriad plugins.

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