{"id":37,"date":"2007-01-23T16:32:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T01:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/23\/why-the-change\/"},"modified":"2007-01-25T13:46:48","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T22:46:48","slug":"why-the-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/23\/why-the-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it may seem abrupt, the switch to WordPress was by no means a quick and easy decision. Here&#8217;s a little background.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little history:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I originally started on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/\">MoveableType<\/a>, but couldn&#8217;t get it to run reliably in my test environment. So I figured I would go to a flat-file system.<\/li>\n<li>Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blosxom.com\/\">Blosxom<\/a>: it ran very well in both my test and live environments, but I was left with a bit of a problem. I wanted to extend Blosxom and add functionality but am not well-versed enough in Perl to wrap my head around many of the available plugins. My biggest headache: getting trackback\/writeback and RSS to work.<\/li>\n<li>So I switched to <a href=\"http:\/\/pyblosxom.sourceforge.net\/\">PyBlosxom<\/a>. Also flat-file, and very easy to move my old content from Blosxom, and with an immensely more understandable API.<\/li>\n<li>After running PyBlosxom for a year I was still having problems with XML-RPC &#8211; I wanted to switch from my clunky PHP\/<a href=\"http:\/\/tinymce.moxiecode.com\/\">TinyMCE<\/a> editor for posting to using something like <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/firefox\/1730\/\">Performancing <\/a>for Firefox (which I am using now) or Ecto. No luck. The response on the developers list was, well, listless at best.<\/li>\n<li>When I finally got fed up with trying to make things work, and the (seeming) lack of active development, I realized that a blog that is (ostensibly) about &#8220;stuff that w0rks&#8221; should be running on &#8220;stuff that w0rks.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I tried MoveableType again &#8211; still don&#8217;t like it, tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.s9y.org\/\">Serendipity<\/a>, it didn&#8217;t feel right, and then finally broke down and tried <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>. While the first couple days were no better than the first days on the others, it soon started to fall into place.<\/li>\n<li>And that brings us here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"poweredbyperformancing\">powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/performancing.com\/firefox\">performancing firefox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it may seem abrupt, the switch to WordPress was by no means a quick and easy decision. Here&#8217;s a little background. Here&#8217;s a little history: I originally started on MoveableType, but couldn&#8217;t get it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,12],"tags":[175,149],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-tools","tag-internet","tag-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxT7i-B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}