I’ve given up on my poorly timed and completely unplanned try at switching to WordPress. I started out thinking I’d experiment with it, then things got out of hand.

Factors contributing to my interest in WordPress:

• ecto via allforces.com
• A little compare and contrast with pMachine
• livesearch
• Better RSS/Atom output
• Flickr Gallery
• A mostly functional pMachine importer
• A damn easy install
• A bunch of plugins

Factors that made me give it up for the short-term:

• I’ve come to like my stats tracking, and I discovered I was going to have to build my own module to track reads per day for stories
• My I understand my home-made spam-blockers and they work, but WordPress came with few/none and got smacked with 50 or more spam comments overnight (which isn’t so many, actually); figuring out the spam-blocking plug-ins was going to take time
• I was under the ignorant impression that WP used Technorati/Flickr-style tags instead of static categories; I was wrong, but there’s another plug-in I can try to do that too
• It turns out there are a number of complaints about sloppy coding in WP, even among WP’s biggest fans; this isn’t such a deal breaker, but it disincentivizes™ the project
• I discovered a number of problems with the way my old content imported; I could have fixed it, but time, time, time…
• I haven’t got much time just now; no time to figure out how to fix what I’ve lost, no time to use the new features
• More importantly, I’ve become more conscious of the fact that I never really chose WP, but was experimenting with it

Reality: there were a few legitimate comments made in the WP database, but I don’t have a good system to bring them back here to pMachine. I haven’t lost them, but until I figure out what I’m doing I’m not going to manually migrate them this direction. Sorry.

Posted May 7, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. .

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