Meryl's Notes Blog

Hot topic in the blog world is MT users are moving to WordPress. Some started before the MT pricing hoopla and others after. It’s understandable people got upset with the pricing change, but I believe the attitude behind the backlash was unwarranted. Unlike most companies, Six Apart listened and immediately adjusted their pricing. They also clearly stated that users can continue using 2.x at no cost and not upgrade to 3.x.

I respect the folks behind Six Apart and admire their work and ethics. They do produce a quality product. Speaking of MT, Molly and Porter have just released a book on how to use MT. It’s based on v2.x and it’s an excellent reference and step-by-step guide.

I mentioned that I don’t plan to change to another CMS because it’s time consuming to integrate the tags into my templates and MT does what I need. I installed WordPress to see what it’s about and the installation was speedy. Points for that. The only trouble I ran into was that wp couldn’t find the database. I needed to add the user name in front of the database name. That done, it worked and all I did was follow the 5-minute instructions installation.

I had originally tried out wp in an open source try before you install environment, but it doesn’t do it justice. Looking around at the interface, I’m instantly impresed with its easy-to-use interface that requires no help file to figure out. The features are power-packed.

I might consider using wp for my redesigned gotchas section. I have already converted the gotchas to match meryl.net and to use MT, but there is no data in there yet. So it would be a good time to see how much work is involved in converting an existing template to wp and to see what the big deal is about.