It’s not perfect, but in terms of php/mysql solutions, I think it’s best of breed and right on for a blog. If I had more general needs in terms of a CMS, I’d be looking at drupal or textpattern — I’m testing Textpattern out now, and it’s okay, but not mindblowing.

I’m curious to see how well things work out if you go to WordPress.

Also, MT has a number of plugins to handle comment spam, in particular ones to disable comments on older posts (which is where I have seen periodic attacks in WordPress). WP has a feature to disable comments automatically if they meet certain criteria (such as number of outbound links).

Eh, anyway. Good luck Bill, hopefully my post won’t get flagged as a spam since I included all these links. :-)

I hear ya on WordPress. A lot of people seem to like it. If you don’t have to do a lot of customization it’s probably fine. One of the things that concerned me when I first took a look at it though was that on their dev boards they were talking about 2 or 3 major changes to the plugin API. Not 2 or 3 changes in one release but 2 or 3 changes coming over several releases. In many cases people would have to re-write their plugins several times in order to keep up.

All in all, I think they have an ok product but I’m not sure I want to throw my hat in the ring with them just yet. To be honest, I’m really interested in writing my own. I think some of the stuff MT does is far superior to WP and WP has some features I wish MT would add. That and the fact there are some things I think neither of them actually got right and I’m sort of leaning towards finding a few weeks in my schedule to crank something out. Who knows, one day it might happen :-)

Bill

At least, I think.

But I’d be interested to hear what kind of things you’d want to do with WordPress you think you can’t — I’ve found that when I think of a feature I want — I just google on the wordpress.org site and *somebody* has done something along those lines.