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James Joyner | Sunday, July 11, 2004 |
Steven Taylor is about to make the switch and has compiled a handy list of links to various tweaks, plug-ins, and helpful hints.
By all accounts, simply starting a site on WordPress or even importing a relatively bare bones site is a fast and simple do-it-yourself job. If you’re running a Movable Type site with a lot of plug-ins, hacks, and gee whiz features on it (as I was), then I’d recommend spending a few bucks and letting a professional do it for you. Or, if money is tight, do the basic move-over yourself and then pay to have the tweaks done.
There have been a few minor problems that have had to be resolved but, for the most part, the change-over was seamless and virtually invisible to the reader–without loss of any of the functionality that I wanted. The only thing I lost is automatic detection of TrackBacks for outgoing posts, a convenient if unreliable feature in Movable Type.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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Outbound trackbacking should be trivial to add; I coded the necessary stuff (a while ago, mind you) in LSblog in a couple of hours' work. The main issue to deal with is broken MT templates.
There is an automatic pingback feature, which does much the same as trackbacks do.
Talking of professionals, BlogBarter can be a source of help.
I thought I had all bases covered in the article on Moving from MT to WP that I wrote some time ago.
Have you noticed that there is now no space between the word "comments" and the opening of the parentheses beside it at the bottom of each post? I had thought perhaps this was a new style, and done on purpose, but the word "Trackbacks" is still followed by a space.
Thought you'd want to know.
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