{"id":384,"date":"2008-05-08T18:56:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2008-05-08T18:56:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T16:56:13","slug":"migration-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Migration to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve moved my blog software from b2evolution<\/a> to WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now if for some malign reason this post got Slashdotted<\/a>\/Dug<\/a> (and please let me install the caching plugins before being so cruel, oh yes, and the Google ads!), let’s circumvent the inevitable comment storm.<\/p>\n

Hoorah, good for you, WordPress is much better because blah blah<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n

What? WordPress sucks! How could you do it – traitor!<\/em> b2evo is much better! It has blah blah<\/a>…
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What?! They both suck, Drupal<\/a>\/Frog<\/a>\/Serendipity<\/a>\/blah blah<\/a> is far superior!<\/em><\/p>\n

LOL??? You use PHP<\/a>? Are you crazy?! Use Ruby<\/a>\/Python\/<\/a>blah blah<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

WTF?!?! You’re running on Debian<\/a>? It’s a pile of crock. apt-get sucks. You should use Ubuntu<\/a>\/SUSE<\/a>\/Red Hat<\/a>\/Gentoo<\/a>\/blah blah<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Linux?? Don’t get me started! Will you noobs never learn. BSD<\/a> is far better<\/p>\n

You open source fanboys don’t know what you’re doing. IIS running on Windows delivers infinitely better performance, and is more secure<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n

Pah! I’ve been running my blog on CP\/M<\/a> and COBOL<\/a> with text files since 1974 – none of these new-fangled things are real blogs. Databases suck<\/a>. Anything written after 1980 isn’t real code!<\/em><\/p>\n

ROTFL. You don’t have a real blog! I use carrier pigeons<\/a> – they’re faster<\/a> and more reliable!<\/em><\/p>\n

Hoorah, good for you, WordPress is much better because blah blah<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n

And so on and so on until the post fades into obscurity 5 or 6 hours later…<\/p>\n

I moved for 2 main reasons:<\/p>\n

1) I run about 5 blogs. All except this one were already on WordPress. I wanted to standardise to make my life easier.<\/p>\n

2) Vanity! I can’t upgrade my ancient version of b2evo to the latest because the skin I used<\/a> wasn’t available on the new version, and I didn’t like any of the available skins. And no, I’m not going to write my own.<\/p>\n

3) WordPress has a far bigger community. Although b2evo has more features out of the box, all the useful little WordPress plugins have lured me over. I’ll stop before I start sounding like the first comment above.<\/p>\n

In theory, everything should continue working gracefully, except for a few minor skin tweaks. All my old links should still work, as should old RSS feeds. Drop me a line if you spot anything broken.<\/p>\n

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