JerryOng.com Divorced with Movable Type and Married with WordPress!

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Sep 26

Jerry Ong Community Blog now officially moving to new blogging platform - Wordpress from previous Movable Type platform, it really spend me one good day with this process and i found not much useful information can be found on the net on “How to fully move Movable Type to Wordpress”.

Transfer blog post, categories, feeds, archives and etc. from MT to WP is easy job but the rest like, how to transfer or redirect all my previous MT permalink (.html to .php) really make me headache and spend a lot of time testing here and there. I’m now consider 95% done all the migration, if you found any error from my blog, very much appreciate if you can let me know!

Why Move to WordPress?

This idea was in my mind for quite sometimes but when Movable Type i know this will be a massive jobs to make everything look alright, especially search engine traffic. Also, Wordpress was a beautiful blogging platform, after getting to know her, understand her and date her during our recent Celebrities blogging project at Friendscino.com, i’m totally fall in love with WP. Not saying Movable Type is not good platform for blogging but there is few things MT wasn’t so friendly for blogger like me, example :

1. There is plenty Free and Fantastic plugins out there for WP but MT plugins was so limited and most of them need to pay (due to pro version);

2. Installation of WP plugins was so easy yet MT plugins installation will need to involved complicated process and more than a directory;

3. For some new bloggers out there, template is one thing, WP have millions of beautiful template out there free for download but MT nice templates was so limited;

Conclusion, Movable Type more suitable for Business & Corporate Blogging and Wordpress was a like a easy going sexy hot girl next door that doesn’t miss your date because of need to spend few hours doing make up . lol

Well, hope still have chance to pick up Movable Type one good day and what in my mind now is start enjoy my blogging honeymoon journey with WordPress ! Last but not least, thank you for your continous support here at www.JerryOng.com!

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