Upgrading

07 Jul 2007 By

I’m in the process of taking everything out of Bloglines and putting it into Google Reader. This involves deleting feeds from Bloglines as I go. In case anybody actually noticed or was wondering.

Also, I’ve got WordPress installed and while this is totally freaking me out, I’m going to try to migrate all my stuff from MT over there. I guess the migration to WordPress freaked me out less than upgrading MT.

I’m really trying to streamline and cut some fluff. I’m excited to start fresh with a new template (that looks like a lot of other people’s, I know). I’ll be adding info back into the site gradually so as to cut down on some of the noise in the sidebar. I need my shit to be easy on the eyes so I can stand to look at my own page, ya know?

So if anything looks or acts weird, just hang in there and give it a day or two, mmmkay?

  • http://www.dustbury.com/ CGHill

    After four MT upgrades and one database crash, I think I’d look fondly on WordPress myself.

  • Anil Dash

    Hi Erica, I work with the MT team, and we’d love to help you out if you’re having trouble with your install. As you can see, we’ve got big plans for what’s coming next with MT, and it’d be a lot less work to fix what you’ve got than to go through a whole migration and have to redo all your templates and your whole site. If you’re interested, I’d be happy to get you some help and maybe even show you the latest improvements we’ve made to MT. You can drop me a line at anil@sixapart.com if I can help.

  • Anil Dash

    (And Charles, same goes for you, of course.)

  • http://s4xton.com/ Aaron Landry

    I think it’s pretty funny that Six Apart chimed in on this one. MT and WP has its pros and cons. Although I’m a big advocate of WP I’m not too quick to sing WP’s praises as it certainly has its issues. MT has a bunch of features WP can’t seem to get its paws around yet, but maybe that’s why I chose WP: it’s simple. MT4 sure looks cool, though.

  • http://www.technologyevangelist.com Ed Kohler

    I haven’t tried the MT4 beta, but from the specs and reviews I’ve read, it looks like it adds some cool community features. However, I’m not sure those appeal to most personal bloggers.

    The biggest benefit of WP is the huge plugin library and developer focus. You have more options for customizing your site and can be sure, today, that developers will design first for WP.

    This won’t always be the case, but WP is the flavor of the year or more.

  • http://www.swirlspice.com Erica

    My non-expert assessment: WP has way awesomer plugins. Just seems simpler. The admin is nicer.

    But I do seriously have some MT brand loyalty because that’s just what I’ve had all along. And I’m not running the latest and greatest, either. And it’s familiar.

    The import into WP isn’t going so hot at the moment, so it’s not a done deal yet.

  • http://www.thirtyo.com/ mel

    *cough*ExpressionEngine*cough*

    I’ll spot you a full personal license, free. :P

  • Matt

    Well, I have been happy with Bloglines for years, but since Erica is moving to Google Reader, I was interested.

    I did the export to ompl and import into Google Reader. This brought things over even with my sub-folders and all. I have to tweak it a bit, but so far, so good.

  • http://www.thebrotherlove.com j. brotherlove

    I’m with mel; if I was going anywhere from MT, it would be ExpressionEngine. It’s what I recommend to most of my clients.

    On a personal note, I have some MT loyalty as well. Like you, my sites need updating and pruning. I will probably end up using both MT and EE, just on different sites.

  • http://www.swirlspice.com Erica

    Well, the WP import process was all but not working, so that’s on hold.

    Gonna attempt the MT upgrade again. Maybe.

  • http://www.thebrotherlove.com j. brotherlove

    Are you attempting a straight-ahead upgrade? I suggest exporting your blog entries and then implementing a clean MT installation; especially if you’re on an old MT version. That’s the route I’m choosing.

  • http://www.srah.net/weblog srah

    I love how MT is always like “This will be our easiest upgrade ever! It will be so simple! You’ll just have to unzip this directory and upload C://A/thingy/widget to www/thingy/widget and C://A/widget/thingy/another/thingy/really/deep/directory to www/plugins/different directory and C://MovableType/thingy/makesitwork/ to www/MT/thingy/doesntwork and then change these permissions to this one thing here then [gap in documentation] hooray you’re done! This will be very easy for you, because you are a large corporation with an IT staff.”

    No, Movable Type. Easy is “click… upgraded.”

    Not that I have any reason to think it’s any easier with any of the other blogging platforms…

  • http://www.swirlspice.com Erica

    That is a freakishly accurate description of the installation instructions.

    I hear WP upgrades are pretty simple. *shrug*

  • http://www.dustbury.com/ CGHill

    I have two WP blogs on the side; my host provides one-click installs for WP, so all I have to do is run the installer from their panel and then fix whatever it did to my original theme tweaks.

    Of course, had I not fiddled with the themes, I wouldn’t have even that much work.

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