Offmessage

adju.st moves to wordpress from MT.

I shall be with you shortly…

So. People have been nagging me to add commenting to this blog. A long story cut very short is that the current software (of my own very early creation) is so unmaintainable that I can’t.

I’ve tried moving to Movable Type a few times, and for reasons too many to mention I have been unable to. My rather unprofessional opinion of MT is that it sucks. Sorry, but that’s just my impression over the few blogs that we run on it and my own attempts to use it for my own purposes.

So, I’m trying Wordpress. First thoughts….

Importing is a bitch. They don’t specify a generic import file format, so you have to frig your data into one from another blogging platform (4 hours). They can only handle import files of 2MB (apparently arbitrary code limit, v. bad); offmessage in my chosen format is somewhere in the region of 5MB, so I had to chop it up into 3 files. They don’t tell you that their import routine is very memory hungry and that you should up your php.ini memory_limit from the default 8MB to somewhere more like 64MB to get your paltry 2MB file to import.

All that said, it’s actually going rather well, and so far I’m pretty pleased. And it certainly knocks MT into a cocked hat.