Switched to WordPress today. Too much blog spam on my old MovableType system, and I couldn’t get the “type the number in this image” feature working because of a weird dependency with the graphical generation package in Perl.
It’s weird, I’m caught in a dependency loop I can’t easily resolve via CPAN, and it’s easier to get this whole new blog package downloaded, installed, working, configured, data migrated, and learn how to use it, rather than get my system re-configured for a newer version of Perl because of fear of what I might break. I think just to be positive, I’ll attribute this as a testament to WordPress’ ease of use rather than complain about the usual Linux/Perl config headaches.
But anyway, I can moderate/approve comments now, and server load is not a problem so coming off a PHP/MySQL generated page is fine, and I really don’t miss rebuilding pages on my creaky old web server. So WordPress fits my needs here. I’ve been a happy, donating MovableType user, and it’s served me well, but I’ve moved on.
It looks like the WordPress pointers on how to generate 301 pages from MovableType is working, so I’ll have to poke around to see if anything got left behind.