A web agency weblog

Some of our visitors may have noticed that the “Powered by Movable Type” icon has been removed from our blog. We decided to make the move to WordPress.

Actually, it wasn’t so hard as I first imagined. I had to use Textile plugin to fix some little details with spanish language characters, most of the configuration was easy.

I really liked the templates management, basically you have to change 2 files: index.php and wp-comments.php, that and a CSS rules file are the only needed modifications to transform the look and feel of your WordPress based blog. MT required handling at least 3 templates and the CSS file.

With WordPress you don’t have to rebuild after every change, this allows you to make quick and easy adjustments to your site. During my tests with MT I often used to forget rebuilding.

WordPress uses only one file to display its data: index.php , but you can use mod_rewrite to create permanent links according to your needs. This can save a lot of disk space, MT created a static file for each article.

The applications is based on PHP and uses its own template tags, which are easy to understand and modify, our home page was modified to include the last 3 posts from News, Web and Events categories.

I have not tested TrackBack yet but I am sure that with some help from the discussion forum and wiki I will be able to solve any problem that may arise, the community around WordPress is very active.

WordPress does not support, at least not in a regular installation, multiple blogs, but I have seen many posts about this in the forum. You could use another installation, the initial configuration takes no more than 2 minutes!.

There are many features to explore but I can say that Wordpress is a free and open source applications that does its job very well.