Migration Migraine
1 May 2005 (Sun)
MAY DAY! Still migrating from pMachine (pM) Pro to WordPress (WP). All earlier entries in InfoGraphicsDesigner have been re-categorized and are now ready 
. All other entries (over 200 of them) and all comments are not 
.
This software which i’ve been using over the two years seems highly ‘protectionist’. It’s like “Hotel California”: “You can check out any time you like, but you can [almost] never leave.” The pM folks don’t provide any export function. WP has import scripts for many software but not pM. Out on the Web, only a problematic pM 2.3 to WP 1.2 converter is available although WP is already at 1.5.
For the sake of convenience, almost paid up and upgraded to Expression Engine (EE). But wasn’t particularly impressed by the two-week trial. There are features in EE which i don’t need. There are also things that i could easily do in pM Pro (e.g. switch an entry from one weblog to another) or want to do (e.g. multi-user annotations on a graphic via the Fotonoter plugin) but couldn’t do in EE.
Plus: Had been so busy with both work and study assignments that the promotion period was over before i realised it. Really couldn’t see why i should fork out over S$200 for a commercial blogging software (which may levy more charges and cut-offs later) when a good one like Wordpress is available free of charge.
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May 29th, 2005 at 11:53 am
Changed title of this post from ‘Migration Blues’ to ‘Migration Migraine’ this morning. Saw the title in a newsletter in NIE. The alliteration sounds cool. btw, A quick Google search on the phrase yields 163 English pages!
July 17th, 2005 at 12:32 pm
WordPress (WP) has its not-so-good side too:
. Posting was very slow, especially initially. A check on the WP support pages suggest that this is due to some code that pings or pulls rss.
. Unlike EE, WP’s categories (which i call ‘tags’ here) cannot be ordered at will. To avoid the jumble, i had wasted a lot of precious time just re-ordering the categories so that they would appear in the order that i prefer.
Other than these, i’m a happy WP user now. Among the things that i like are:
. The spam control. Was delighted a few weeks ago to notice that comments containing lots of links to questionable sites were stopped from being posted.
. Visibility. Upon migration and use of tagging (or actually, categorization in WP), many of my posts were picked up and flagged very quickly in Technorati.