Feb 22 2008
Wordpress
I will be attempting to migrate to wordpress over the next few weeks. For a quick preview of the new keithwikle.com, head over to the new Keith Wikle.com
Textpattern has come to a dead end from a development standpoint. There have been no new releases in some time. The developers are working on a new branch of the project with no release date in site.
I’ve liked a lot about Textpattern. However there were some things that didn’t jibe.
The image management sucked. You had to toggle between two tabs in the admin interface to integrate an image into the post.
Creating pages that were not part of the Blog took some serious jury rigging. I finally managed to do this with the last incarnation of my theme.
Also while on themes, everytime I updated my theme it really took a lot of work to configure and tweak everything into place.
Wordpress allows you to add static pages and children pages with little difficulty. Image management seems to be more streamlined with posting content. Themes can be updated merely by dropping files into a themes folder in the directory and then selecting the theme in the admin tool. I’ve also imported all of my 200 posts. I just need to work on getting the wordpress textile plugin working so that all of my images and formatting tags from Textpattern will still appear. And as I stop using them in Wordpress it will be great.
