movabletype.org— WordPress gets all the press for open source blogging, but Movable Type, the daddy of all serious blogging apps, is open source now -- is there finally a new king of the blogging hill?
Jun 5, 2007View in Crawl 4
I dumped MT for Wordpress and never looked back. MT is a mess. You can open source that code all you want, that does not make it any more useful or any less spaghetti. It's a horrible Perl/PHP hybrid that's bloated, slow, and hopelessly outdated. The publishing process is painful with rebuilding pages and becomes more and more painful as your blog grows. The dynamic rebuild process is incompatible with countless plugins. The plugin interface itself is deeply flawed in that most plugins require modifications to shared libraries and/or MovableType core files. To top it all off it's a spam magnet.I really hate to slam on MT so bad be really, they deserved to have the carpet pulled out from under them by Wordpress.
WP has a dedicated community of thousands of developers who contribute plugins and blog templates free of charge. There is no feature that can be imagined but can not be added to WP with the help of those addons. This, and WP is in constant development (look at the recent updates hitting Digg front page) and is making major leaps with every new release.MT, I am afraid, is going to have a REAL hard time catching up to WP.
Would you like to discover what's new with thie Movable Type v4.0 release?There is a full featured Movable Type Athena project online demo that you can go and check out anytime<a class="user" href="http://www.movabletype4.org/">http://www.movabletype4.org/</a>Enjoy a wonderful plublishing platform taking shape!
Yes, that's called: "dynamic publishing" and Movable Type has had it since 3.0D which came out like two and a half years ago. It is indeed extremely satisfying to see changes take effect immediately. On the other hand, sites with massive traffic absolutely require static page generation (i.e. rebuilding) in order to not present to visitors that lovely "Wordpress could not connect to database" error page.Having both is absolutely a feature and an absolute requirement in satisfying both types of usage patterns.
readmeJun 5, 2007
I dumped MT for Wordpress and never looked back. MT is a mess. You can open source that code all you want, that does not make it any more useful or any less spaghetti. It's a horrible Perl/PHP hybrid that's bloated, slow, and hopelessly outdated. The publishing process is painful with rebuilding pages and becomes more and more painful as your blog grows. The dynamic rebuild process is incompatible with countless plugins. The plugin interface itself is deeply flawed in that most plugins require modifications to shared libraries and/or MovableType core files. To top it all off it's a spam magnet.I really hate to slam on MT so bad be really, they deserved to have the carpet pulled out from under them by Wordpress.
Closed AccountJun 5, 2007
Of course they did, why do you think they're making this moves now?
wunchJun 6, 2007
They're releasing a GPL'd version of MT 4.0 later in the summer:<a class="user" href="http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/">http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/</a>
inloveJun 6, 2007
WP has a dedicated community of thousands of developers who contribute plugins and blog templates free of charge. There is no feature that can be imagined but can not be added to WP with the help of those addons. This, and WP is in constant development (look at the recent updates hitting Digg front page) and is making major leaps with every new release.MT, I am afraid, is going to have a REAL hard time catching up to WP.
rockslayerJun 6, 2007
I was able to give birth to a blog in less than 15 minutes with this opensource.<a class="user" href="http://www.makstak.com/yo/">http://www.makstak.com/yo/</a>need to set up nice image galleries with MT4 now.
marketguerillaJun 8, 2007
Looks cool, but it would take even more to get me to take the effort of making the switch from WordPress.
proitserviceJun 28, 2007
Would you like to discover what's new with thie Movable Type v4.0 release?There is a full featured Movable Type Athena project online demo that you can go and check out anytime<a class="user" href="http://www.movabletype4.org/">http://www.movabletype4.org/</a>Enjoy a wonderful plublishing platform taking shape!
fooljayAug 13, 2007
Yes, that's called: "dynamic publishing" and Movable Type has had it since 3.0D which came out like two and a half years ago. It is indeed extremely satisfying to see changes take effect immediately. On the other hand, sites with massive traffic absolutely require static page generation (i.e. rebuilding) in order to not present to visitors that lovely "Wordpress could not connect to database" error page.Having both is absolutely a feature and an absolute requirement in satisfying both types of usage patterns.