So, I reverted back to Wordpress. I didn’t make many posts using Movable Type, but will try to import them at some point. I might not bother.

The main reason for switching back to Wordpress? There are a few things, really.

  • Themes

    The themes available for MT are quite limited these days. Most people seem to be working on Wordpress themes. And I think there is a good reason for this; the templating language used in the Movable Type theme engine is … antiquated. I’m sure it made sense back in the day, but Wordpress’s templates are much easier to write. Try writing an if/then/else structure in a template in Movable Type and then do it with Wordpress, I dare you.

  • Application speed.

    Movable type generates everything out to flat files. It’s supposed to be able to dynamically generate some content, but in practice it doesn’t work very well. And many changes will require you to regenerate every page on the site. Its not cool.

I do like the fact that Movable Type will let you manage multiple sites through a single instance; Wordpress really needs this feature I think to cater for the smaller numbers of people out there with multiple domains who want to run different blogs for different topics but keep the same user database.

In other news, I’ve started cycling to work and home. Today is my 5th day, and my bottom is beginning to hurt in spite of the padded shorts. Ow. But, the good news is I am feeling a little better for it and its encouraging me to get up earlier in the morning - none of which is a bad thing.

If I manage to burn ~500 calories a day, which should be easily achievable with my hilly 8km (16km in total per day) route, and keep my calorie intake down, I should be able to get into a healthy deficit and burn some of the padding around the middle.