I’ve made the switch to Wordpress. This was not because of anything really other than the fact that this is an entirely php based CMS, or content management system. The advantage is that it’s got some absolutely dynamite features that I’m well impressed by. It will take a while to implement all of them and actually get everything to work properly, but the good news is that this particular system is completely free, under the GNU license which means anyone can distribute this.

So why wordpress rather than the alternatives, and god knows there are a lot of them around. To be honest I did spend the better part of a week actually looking at the alternatives:

textpattern while cool lacked something very simple, a real GNU license, I don’t care what kind of license the guy has, if it’s not completely open source then I’m really not interested, I’m not getting caught out again like MT3, it’s time to actually think about this before you commit. Additionally there just wasn’t the community that Wordpress currently has.

b2evolution I did actually install this and have a play with it. It’s got some features that I’d love in wordpress but there was two things that one it over for wordpress, the first being the fact that I can import everything from MT and secondly the plugins had a seperate tab in the admin area which is pretty important since you can activate or deactivate everything pretty easily without deleting them from the system, or hiding them and loosing them or whatever.

Wordpress is still only on version 1.2 I’m guessing in the coming year there is going to be some serious improvements being brought forward from the incredibly active community involved at wordpress . There are some major wishlists I’d like to have but I’ll talk more about that in the coming months as I get to grip with both wordpress and php which is an incredibly versatile language which is absolutely brilliant.

Just been playing some more with this here little blogging tool and it’s even more amazing than I originally thought. The problem of course is finding out exactly what works and how it goes about doing things, but needless to say it’s MILES more powerful than MT. The best thing this blog could have had was friggin MT screwing themselves over because at the very least I now get to play around with something that is truely powerful and can do just about everything and in the simplest easiest manner. Hell I’ve already updated and imported all my MT entries which were originally blogger entries, and if I remember correctly the last time I did this it was a hell of a lot more painful. The features I’m going to be including on this little blog is going to be well impressive.

Wordpress, I LOVE YOU.