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May 25, 2004

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I still have no beef with Movable Type.

However, I AM testing ExpressionEngine and it's pretty deep. How deep? Well, when you can add arbitrary fields to member profiles (call them authors if you like) and post records, use them in your templates as simply as {fieldname} and embed SQL in your templates, that's pretty damn flexible. There's a MovableType plugin that lets you embed SQL in custom tags, but ExpressionEngine comes with this feature out of the box. Admittedly that's probably not that big a deal for someone who's embedding SQL in a page; the big deal is the ability to add fields and just USE them. I have that capability in the link forum software I mentioned some time ago, and it's potent enough that I could use it for blogging or as a BBS systems.

And on the Wordpress front, Jennifer at ScriptyGoddess is converting because she likes it as a development target. Being open source and written in PHP (SG's apparent preferred language), Wordpress can directly absorb her stuff. If much more talent of her caliber starts working in Wordpress, it's going to become really impressive really fast.In fact, I just peeked and found they've released version 1.2 and it already looks impressive.

Posted by P6 at May 25, 2004 11:39 PM
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I just came acros smy first EE blog and now I'm pissed that I didn't sign up for a free copy last week.

But I'm still leaning towards an open source tool, with WordPress leading the way. I saw all of SG's stuff yesterday and was impressed. I may be making that switch soon. Especially if they have a godd solution for comment spam (which I haven't explored yet)

Posted by Michael at May 26, 2004 11:03 AM

Wordpress not only has a comment spam solution, it can use MT-Blacklist data. Check the changelog this at Wordpress' support site and this post at the MT-Blacklist site.

What's REALLY scary is they have an RSS-to-Post conversion thing. This means an aggregator site can be built using full text RSS 2.0 feed, and to hell with a lot of technical knowledge. And Shelley at BurningBird has also joined the Wordpress developer ranks.

Posted by P6 at May 26, 2004 11:32 AM

Egggsellent! Thanks for the info. I'm dreading redoing all of my blogs, but WordPress is calling me.

Posted by Michael at May 27, 2004 10:57 AM