Why: Migration from one to another

Dec 22, 2003 / 12:18 pm

in Movable Type, Sites, Thought, Webdev, wordpress

So, why migrating from a blogtool to another? Because… It’s fun. So, I want to make a review about the migration. (hehe… probably it will be so boring). It’s gonna be a long post. :) And, you can find out my reasons. If you have question about this, you’ll find the answers.

Blogger.Com
Blogger is my very first blogtool I knew. At first, I only know a bit about weblog. I only made a personal site. Using iframe, and got hosted at free hosting service. And when I wanted to “make a page where I can post something regularly, I posted it manually. Yes, manually :) Googling, and surfing on the net… and I found Blogger. Then I surfed to site, and found Donnie’s site. My question (at that time “How to make such site?”). -_- I got my first Blogger site hosted at Blog*Spot. No commenting system, no referer. Nothing, just a simple weblog.
Greymatter
This is my second blogtool. Made by Noah Grey. I installed it since I had my first hosting having a more-than-enough features. It was at Singcat. It was free at the first time. I had a built-in weblog commenting system there. So, yeah! If people want to make a comment, it was so easy. I used it for months. I did not know much about PHP. So, I use that. But, I found a problem when I had to rebuild all files when I made some changes to get the effects. I had a slow internet connection. Sometimes, when I do rebuilding, connection disconnected. Arrghh! Too bad.
b2 Cafelog and WordPress
Coming up after Greymatter. I found its installation is easy enough. The customization also. I have installed many b2 hacks for my b2 site. And, when WordPress came, I moved to WordPress. Great tool! And I make some changes here and there. I use it almost a year. Including the search-engine friendly URL for Wordpress. Good job for all b2 and Wordpress developers!
pMachine Pro 2.3
I moved to a new webhost, and I did not transfer all my files to a new host, but I had my database backed up. Installing Wordpress again? Uhmm… what about pMachine? I read the documentations, the features. Than I moved to pMachine. I got the copy pMachine Pro 2.3 from Rick Ellis for my Indonesian Language Pack for pMachine. I have tried some modifications. And also the search engine friendly URL. And also the multiple weblogs.

Movable Type
My current blogtool. My reasons:

Features and hacks. I like to made a modification on the layout and blog items (hacks?).
Nice permalink Well, take a look at the permalinks. For me it’s so nice. Including the archiving.
Challenging. For me, it’s so challenging to make a layout on movabletype-based weblog. And I am so curious about this.
Multiple weblogs, and categories I can file an entry into some categories, and make other weblogs. I heard that WordPress will have this feature too. (The multiple categories… Nice!)

That’s my main reasons. What about you? :)

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December 22nd, 2003 • # 12:18 pm

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avie

woww.. keep up tha gud work mas :D

Dec 22, 2003 at 4:16 pm
cHocoluv

aduh mbek… /me jadi ga enak ma komenku kemarin. maap ya… just kidding :D
lagian juga… semua org butuh perubahan, biar ga monoton, ga mbosenin gitu. ya ga sih? *binun ndiri*

Dec 22, 2003 at 4:37 pm
echa

wowww wowwww *tepuk tangan* :D

Dec 22, 2003 at 6:35 pm
thuns

huebat bro!

Dec 22, 2003 at 9:06 pm
William Pramana

There is no need for you to explain to anyone why you switched blog tool. This is your blog and you are free to do anything with it. So, who cares about what other people think..

Why did thomas change blog tool? Because he wants to and he can :-).

Dec 22, 2003 at 10:27 pm
echa

wow William, i thought i didn’t say “why” but i said,”thomas is a clever one because he has ever changed his blogtool so many times”

guess u better read

Dec 22, 2003 at 10:42 pm
William Pramana

Echa: I really think you should be the one reading it carefully. I wrote that comment for thomas, not you.

My message was meant to say “There is no need for Thomas to explain to anyone why he switched blog tool”. Read the topic of this entry. Why: Migration from one to another.

Guess you should be the one who should read again huh!

Dec 23, 2003 at 4:21 am
echa

yeah because i wrote something about blogtool too and thomas has answered in this post!

Dec 23, 2003 at 5:04 am
echa

awww i meant, about my post, i have reason too, my previous post heheh not thomas post *aduhh…itu maksudnya yg diatas itu lho..ko jadi gawat gini ya skarang?

hihi…salah en kurang nulis ternyata aku :( abis ngomennya juga pagi2 tadi :D

sorry

Dec 23, 2003 at 5:13 am
kenneth

I went from manual to GreyMatter, to b2 to Wordpress. I’m still with Wordpress right now.

Dec 23, 2003 at 5:26 am
Wahyu

Huaaah gonta ganti ki

Dec 23, 2003 at 9:25 am
capung

lha… posting’e sing nganggo pmachine neng ndi…
aku pingin ngerti soal localhost sing kok posting kae lho mas… comment’e kamsudku…

Dec 23, 2003 at 5:02 pm
thalia

nice review :) quick question, since you’ve gone through many tools: how do you compare between MT and WP? i’m thinking of migrating the journal to WP, since they have the “password protected entry” feature. but, as you probably know, migration is kinda… well, scary.

Dec 23, 2003 at 6:16 pm
Patrick

Hi

For my part I don’t move from one to another tool because I actually don’t really have an active blog but I like to play with CMS tools and bloging tools are really great.
- I really LOVE b2evo (the other branch of b2) because of it’s community and its great features.
- Also installed MT that I definitly don’t like (don’t really know why). Too big, too complicated, too many plugins and hacks …
- Textpatern has great potential even if version number seems to be not stable version (while it IS stable).
- Nucleus is really easy to use. The backoffice is the best I’ve seen for layout customisation. The community is also very active.
- Others as bBlog and pMachine are also good tools but I haven’t tested them enough yet :)

May 17, 2004 at 12:38 am
laptopy

Hmmmmm interesting !!!

May 17, 2004 at 6:25 am
Patrick

Hi

For those who are thinking about migrating to b2evo or just testing it you soon should be able to have migration scripts (at least for MT) as announced here :

http://b2evolution.net/news.php/2004/05/17/p2689

May 17, 2004 at 11:16 pm

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