The software that runs this blog, Movable Type, has been giving me fits for the past month or so. And ever since I upgraded and lost my old template, I’ve been thinking of switching to WordPress. The latest version of Movable Type is very slow to load and publish, and to be honest, it just has too many features than I need. I’m not taking advantage of all the bells and whistles, nor do I even really understand them all, and it might actually be too much of a good thing. Especially since it’s acting up. I know some people are getting errors when they try to leave comments. Probably the same errors I’m getting half the time I try to publish.
My host makes it really easy to install WordPress, so last night I tried to switch. I logged into Movable Type to export my current blog so that I can pull all my entries into a new content management system, but the export didn’t work. I thought it was something to do with the software installation itself, so I figured I’d upgrade to their latest version and export again. But before upgrading they recommend that you backup the database, and even that was giving me errors. So maybe it’s a blog software issue, and maybe it’s a database issue. Either way, I can’t upgrade just yet. I’ve got a ticket in to my host’s support people, so I expect to figure things out soon.
All that is a long-winded way of saying that if you see funny things going on around here in the next few days, I’m working on some changes and hope to get everything straightened out soon.
