After reading that Canter piece I began to have second thoughts about \’migrating\’ to WordPress. Whether it\’s open source (whatever *that* means..) or paid for, you\’re giving up control over how your content is managed. If you use WordPress how easy is it too dump your archived posts and import them into something else? Then again, if you\’re writing yout own CMS you\’ll have the same problem (although you\’re unlikely to wake up one day and decide you\’re going to start charging yourself for the use of it!). I quite like the idea of writing my own crude CMS, just for the learning experience. It just seems like too much effort right now. Eric Meyer explains his descision to abandon his hand-crafted system in favour of WordPress in Migration Patterns. Damn, I never was any good at making decisions.
Yeah, I have my old MySQL dumps from when I ran b2 and wordpress. I\’m sure if I was ambitious I could either import those into something new or create a CMS that somehow includes those two past dumps (plus about 100 plain HTML entries before I used a CMS). But, sadly for me, I don\’t think I would do either of that and just start a new site with a new install of WordPress. While learning a new trick may be cool, if a solution out there meets my needs, I\’m more inclined to just use that. Maybe tailor it to certain other needs, but I want to do other things with my time than start something like that from scratch.
6:18 pm on 17 May 2004 :::
Stu Says:Reaction from Marc Canter.
11:33 am on 18 May 2004 :::
Stu Says:After reading that Canter piece I began to have second thoughts about \’migrating\’ to WordPress. Whether it\’s open source (whatever *that* means..) or paid for, you\’re giving up control over how your content is managed. If you use WordPress how easy is it too dump your archived posts and import them into something else? Then again, if you\’re writing yout own CMS you\’ll have the same problem (although you\’re unlikely to wake up one day and decide you\’re going to start charging yourself for the use of it!). I quite like the idea of writing my own crude CMS, just for the learning experience. It just seems like too much effort right now. Eric Meyer explains his descision to abandon his hand-crafted system in favour of WordPress in Migration Patterns. Damn, I never was any good at making decisions.
4:39 pm on 18 May 2004 :::
natis Says:Yeah, I have my old MySQL dumps from when I ran b2 and wordpress. I\’m sure if I was ambitious I could either import those into something new or create a CMS that somehow includes those two past dumps (plus about 100 plain HTML entries before I used a CMS). But, sadly for me, I don\’t think I would do either of that and just start a new site with a new install of WordPress. While learning a new trick may be cool, if a solution out there meets my needs, I\’m more inclined to just use that. Maybe tailor it to certain other needs, but I want to do other things with my time than start something like that from scratch.
That\’s just me though.
6:19 pm on 18 May 2004 :::
Tommy Says:Good article.
When I was about to start my site in December 2003 I had considered using MT, but the license put me off. Seems to have been a good decision.