No more Movable Type for me
June 10, 2005 by Mike Wendland
I’m dumping Movable Type.
I’m at the Jacksonville, FL airport waiting to board the flight home and cleaning out more comment and trackback spam on a Verizon EV-DO card connection. But this vacation has convinced me the task of managing this blog and removing the spam posts from the creeps and con men is too time comsuming.
In the week I have been on vacation, more than 400 of these slimeballs have tried to clutter up this blog with their junk.
I’m looking at Word Press as a possible replacement.
Any feedback?
I have not been blogging for long, but Word Press has been great for me. I use a plug in called Spam Karma2, whcih all the “pros” seem to be using. http://binarybonsai.com/ a fav of mine uses it and loves it. Just a thought.
Paul
I also used to use Movable Type and recently moved to Word Press. Awesome software. And lots of very helpful plugins including those that will help you with your comment and pinging spam problem. I’ve had no problems with this software over the last month that I have used it. I have had some problems with a couple of RSS feed plugins but they were pretty easy to fix. Oh, yeah, WP runs in PHP rather than Perl so that’s kind of a plus too.
I’d recommend the SpamLookup plugin for MT, along with the Moderate plugin for moderating trackbacks. We have a lot of users running SpamLookup and most of them have zero spam after installing it. Plus, then you don’t have to change any of your templates or styles.
I use wordpress with the spaminator plugin, works as advertised. It is a great product and free. I dumped MT awhile back for a number of reasons. You shouldn’t have to mess with your template too much, either.
Good luck with the switch.
I LOVE Expression Engine. It is powerful, flexible and has a whole communications module and photo albums.
I switched to WordPress over a year ago and with the 1.5 release of WP I recieve 0 comment spam. Its a great product and totally open source. Gave a shot!
I’m a huge WP fan-convert. I recommend the SpamKarma plugin. One thing I don’t like, though, is an uneditable black-list, but that’s live-withable.
I love WordPress, and have been using it for 2.5 years with no real problems. I have it set up where moderation is on, but after I accept a user’s initial post, all of their future posts are accepted automatically. As for spam, even if hundreds come in, there is a “Mark all as Spam” button, allowing all to be selected, and then if one or two in there are legit, I can go to them and approve them, so I’m always just a couple of clicks away from clearing all spam posts waiting for approval.
I have been thinking about ditching MT for some time myself. Problem is I have a 10 month old, so time for things like that is limited. Anyway, I have also read good things about WordPress. The only issue I have with it is that the last time I checked, it could only support one blog. If you want to have more than one at your site, you have to have multiple separate installations. The software that I am more intrigued by is a bit more than blogging software. It is actually content management software, but looks like it could be simplified down to just a blog pretty easily. It is Drupal. Check it out at http://drupal.org/features . I have been seeing it used more and more. In fact, the guys from TechTV’s old show, The Screen Savers, are using it to host the site for their podcast at http://www.twit.tv .
Good luck!
WordPress was once severly affected by trackback spam too. You have tools to control that in MT. Spam is universal. Switch to WordPress for better reasons that this