Recently I’ve went through an experience I would rather not repeat. I made an attempt to convert NASA Watch from our commercially licensed Movable Type 3.35, which it currently uses, to Wordpress 2.5 with results that did not please me.
For some time now I’ve been somewhat displeased with the lack of features I could easily add to Movable Type to enhance it. In so doing I forgot one important lesson, if it isn’t broken why mess with it. It was one thing to want additional features, it’s another to move over to another platform altogether. I wanted to move to Wordpress 2.5 because it offered a lot more features in an open source environment and because I thought it would save me time. Like so many other people I have a lot of projects on the go and my time has to be spread around each project.
After the conversion to Wordpress 2.5 failed I then tried to move NASA Watch to the new open source version of Movable Type 4.1 with results just as bad. And so here starts my tale of publishing woes.
Tags: Intercat, Movable Type, web publishing, Wordpress
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