There has been a report of a nasty new security flaw in the WordPress community. I have taken the appropriate steps toward stopping it for now, but it got me to thinking about why I am using WordPress. It mostly has to do with the fact that Movable Type 3.2 didn't have even remotely decent spam filtering and I wasted an inordinate amount of time with deleting spam because Movable Type Blacklist didn't work with it. I like WordPress, don't get me wrong, but I am a little bit disturbed by the blame-game that has gone on on the WordPress hackers mailing list. If it is what I think it is, it's a major problem, not a minor one. I don't know much, as I haven't looked at it ver hard because everyone is being coy about the details, but I am not sure it I want to keep using WordPress if people on the list are going to downplay and attack like what Dr. Dave of SpamKarma has been on the receiving end of over this issue.
So, what am I going to do? I'm going to install Movable Type 3.31 alongside my WordPress installation. I am going to get it configured just like my WordPress installation, then I am going to write and open source a conversion utility that will convert WordPress data into Movable Type's export/import format if a usable one doesn't already exist. Then, one day, if I get it the way I like it, it'll be Movable Type. There are things that are new in MT 3.31 that sound cool and quite frankly, I am starting to miss having static PHP pages instead of relying on the good graces of MySQL's stability to feed basic content on a regular basis.
Now that Akismet is available for Movable Type, not nearly as much left keeping me loyal to WordPress. Nice product, but I switched mostly because of a fault in Movable Type rather than an honest love of something other than Movable Type.
No disruptions. Yeah, yeah. It'll just happen. Like a frickin thief in the night if I go through with it. Even my current theme will be recycled. I'll stew, I'll hack and I'll plot my exit plan and then one day... GONE!
Yes, I know it's incredibly ironic that I am saying this right after I have spent a little time hacking away at WordPress to make it more usable for my tastes. C'est la vie. If and when I make the jump, I will relinquish control over any plugins that I have written for WordPress and let people hack away at them to their hearts' content.
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