Kinda (re)done.

Wow, that wasn’t too hard at all. In fact, moving to WordPress from Movable Type was pretty darned easy, although our database played hide-and-seek for a few minutes. It actually went missing according to one interface, but not in another. Very weird.

The built-in importer worked flawlessly. Carthik.net’s instructions really proved to allay fears more than they were actually necessary. I’m not too concerned with permalinks to the old MT entries since we’re not like some sites that have thousands of entries.

If you’re not a blogger, you might have missed the reason why there’s been a mass exodus from Movable Type to WordPress in the past week. Let’s just say it comes from having your previously-free software suddenly going up to either $199.99 or $699.99, depending on whether MT considers us an organization or not. (We have 14 active members; that’s not counting the 4+ inactive members and other prospective Villagers we could add at a minimum of $10/head.)

Obviously, none of us blog daily here. I have no desire to pay more for blogging software than a year’s worth of web hosting and if that makes me an ungrateful cheap bastard, then so be it. So far I’ve been very impressed with WordPress (hey, it’s easy to make links) and the hacks the community has built for it since it’s open source.

MT did work for us, but I think WP will work even better. Welcome to the new world, villagers. New features, etc., to come as I tweak around with things.