Wordpress? Wha?

So I finally jumped ship. After all those years of using Movable Type I have finally jumped ship. Yes I did it because of the licensing, but not because I wasn’t willing to pay. I just wasn’t willing to pay what they were asking for the four blogs and three authors that were running on my install. Furthermore, as far as I can tell the changes in MT3 were minimal and did nothing to quell the problems with the comment spam. By employing a centralized login system, the only
thing that Typekey did was drive visitors and comments away. Not all of the people who refuse to log in are comment spammers. Some people just don’t like creating accounts on every damned website and they’re entitled to that, as I should be entitled to quell comment spam with a reasonable level of ease without requiring logins. MT3 did not provide that solution for me, so why would I pay for something that didn’t fix the problems I had with the previous version? Furthermore, there is no guarantee that I won’t have to pay through the nose for the next version when its released. I just didn’t feel secure paying that amount of money to not solve my blog problems so thus I am here. Wordpress is a learning experience, and I’m excited because it’s PHP based and I’m all about learning some PHP. Maybe I will be compelled to produce some plugins. We’ll see. Anyway, tell me what you think of the WP setup here, and I’ll try to accommodate any issues you guys find with my site.

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