Time to say MT goodbye

September 26th, 2004

For some time now i’ve been thinking of changing my blog engine (currently it is Movable Type) to something else.
Why? .. well, i don’t like the way you edit templates in MT and the comment-spammers are really annoying and i don’t think Todd will ever upgrade the current MT version (and, don’t worry Todd, i don’t even want to ;))
So, while waiting for Todd to finish up his CF blogging system (and then pass it on to me ;)) I have narrowed down my choice to two options: Textpattern and PyBlosxom.

I like Textpattern for its ease of use and configuration and being very flexible. On the other hand, PyBlosxom is written in Python and as such very appealing (oportunity to learn more Python! :D)
Does any of you know of other (possibly Python) blog systems worth taking a look?

Posted by klaut Filed in General

7 Responses to “Time to say MT goodbye”

  1. non Says:
    September 26th, 2004 at 10:12 pm

    i’d like to know how b2evolution and wordpress are. not much chatter on b2, but it looks nice.

  2. Ryan Matsikas Says:
    September 26th, 2004 at 11:07 pm

    I hear expression engine is good.. although there is a cost.. http://expressionengine.com/

  3. Jonas Galvez Says:
    September 27th, 2004 at 3:42 am

    Klaut, I’m about to finish my own blogging system. It’s extremely simple. It uses Python and PHP. The entries are statically written to a PHP page, which retrieves comments dynamically from MySQL (I decided to make the comments PHP-based to avoid having to rebuild when removing spam). For templating, I’m using Cheetah. In the end, I think it will result in five small CGIs and a single PHP file that provides the exact functionalities I use in MT now in a much cleaner way - and the best thing: I’ll be able to tweak it myself :) If you want I can provide you with the files once I finish.

  4. klaut Says:
    September 27th, 2004 at 9:24 am

    Jonas, that would be really cool! It sounds like an interesting piece of work and if you really have no problems providing the files i would be really gratefull - you just come to the top of my Xmass gift list! :))
    Thank you!!!

  5. databhi Says:
    September 27th, 2004 at 2:51 pm

    I love wordpress, very easy to use. It’s in PHP though, wich I like, but you’re after Phyton so… you may don’t care about this.

  6. cimba Says:
    September 27th, 2004 at 6:47 pm

    Sorry for the off topic, I just wanted to say thank you for your comment on my blog :) ciao! cimba

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