Some time ago I was a die hard fan of Six Apart’s Movable Type blog platform. Needless to say now I am fully entrenched in WordPress and I don’t think it’s possible for me to got back to MT.
One of the things that I did like about MT was that the blog engine did not reside in the blog directory. In case you don’t understand what that means, Typically Wordpress is installed in a web accessible directory on your host. Many peole choose to move WP to a sub-directory but it is still web-accessable.
MT on the other hand usually resides in a CGI diectory wich is not web-accessible. While WP pulls information from a database (MySQL) on demand, MT writes static content. While MT’s philosophy SOUNDS like aresponisble and secure architechture for a weblog system, it actually means that the blog is less intuitive.
In a wordpress blog, if you are viewing a monthly archive such as “mydomain.com/archives/2008/10/” and you truncate the URL to the year “mydomain.com/archives/2008/” WordPress will present you with a yearly archive with no addidtional coding from the blog publisher. MT on the other hand wil probably return a 404 not found error because the blog publisher has not mapped an annual archive.
It’s little things like that which make WordPress such a joy to work with. MT is so ridgid.
Now MT is all about “social networking” WTF? I don’t want to create a mini-myspace. I want my own blog.
Eh. Who knows.
