I wrote this on Waveflux about a year ago:
After finding few helpful resources and trying in vain to decipher the goat entrails of Movable Type 4’s templating, it finally came to me on a Friday night: switching to another platform couldn’t possibly be any harder than wrestling with Movable Type. It’s the sort of realization that one might resist because of all that one has invested in the system one knows. But that was the rub: I didn’t know this system anymore. Whatever I had invested in MT, whatever familiarity I had with the way it worked, had flown out the window the moment I upgraded to version 4. So I bought a copy of Lisa Sabin-Wilson’s WordPress for Dummies the next day, spent Saturday and Sunday reading the relevant chapters, and set up a trial WP installation.
It wasn’t long before I had a shiny new Waveflux running atop WordPress, and the relief that came with the change in platforms is still very much with me, even after the initial and understandable infatuation with the new platform had worn away. There have been challenges and puzzles to solve as I learned my way around WP and added functionality to the blog, but through all of it I enjoyed the confidence of knowing that with WordPress, a solution to most any technical problem was just a search away. The flexibility of changing layouts was a great boon; my only problem was settling on one design. The continual improvements to the platform – resulting most recently in version 2.7, hailed by just about everyone as an out-of-the-park home run – have been extremely gratifying.
In short, working with WordPress over the past year has been…what’s the word? Fun. It’s been a lot of fun. Looking forward to more of it.
