I'm hoping there's a way for one blog to subscribe to the contents of another (ie, via RSS, etc). What I'd like is for new posts in my Wordpress blog to show up in a separate Movable Type blog. I thought MultiBlog 2.0 was the way to go, but the docs are confusing and I get the feeling it can't do what I want.
Dude I know what you are wanting but cant think what the name is now. My email is caffeinatedandready gmail if you send me a reminder and i will look it up later if you get no answer. Deal?
What I'm not sure is whether Texrat needs to host his own blog, and if he cares about AQL database types.
Wordpress.com offer basically what you need for free with 0 hassle and a very user friendly admin interface.
MT is worse than WP on this, I think. I have been using both (and Drupal) and for what Texrat wants I think wordpress.com is the best to concentrate on publishing and forget about the rest.
Movable Type is known to be resource hungry. Not the static pages it generates, but the other stuff around it. Plus that the system is a nightmare to work with, compared to Wordpress (though that is a personal preference).
Beside, if you have a hosting provider that provides one-click installs (similar to Installatron or Fantastico), then you get the extra benefits of having your own Wordpress install, but simplicity similar to what wordpress.com has to offer.
Wordpress.com is good, by all means, but as someone wrote earlier; a tad limited.
Until now I have seen Texrat quite happy with a forum to discuss (ITt) and his very basic internal blog. What else does he need?
Anyway, this is easy for Texrat to decide: look at the features wordpress.com offers and see if this is enough for you. If not, host your wordpress. I really doubt you need something wordpress is not providing you and can be fount in MT.
I considered Wordpress.com, because hosting my own is not something I enjoy. I'd like hosting to be Somebody Else's Problem, found the hosted solutions limiting. My number one requirement is control over the URL space. So I'm stuck with self-hosted WP, but luckily Dreamhost's one-click install/upgrade is brilliant.
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Move to word press before you loose your sanity.
11 months, 1 week ago by CaffeineJunky
I'm hoping there's a way for one blog to subscribe to the contents of another (ie, via RSS, etc). What I'd like is for new posts in my Wordpress blog to show up in a separate Movable Type blog. I thought MultiBlog 2.0 was the way to go, but the docs are confusing and I get the feeling it can't do what I want.
Any ideas?
11 months, 1 week ago by Texrat
lol CJ... I did! but...
11 months, 1 week ago by Texrat
Dude I know what you are wanting but cant think what the name is now. My email is caffeinatedandready gmail if you send me a reminder and i will look it up later if you get no answer. Deal?
11 months, 1 week ago by CaffeineJunky
Cool. You are the best.
11 months, 1 week ago by Texrat
humm you mean noserub? i feed my website with it!
11 months, 1 week ago by BUGabundo
Listen to CaffeineJunky. http://wordress.com and you are done.
11 months, 1 week ago by qgil
honestly, if I were to start hosting my own blog today, I'd pick Movable Type. In comparison to Wordpress, MT can use PostgreSQL...
but I'm a geek and prefer to host myself.
11 months, 1 week ago by myrtti
What I'm not sure is whether Texrat needs to host his own blog, and if he cares about AQL database types.
Wordpress.com offer basically what you need for free with 0 hassle and a very user friendly admin interface.
MT is worse than WP on this, I think. I have been using both (and Drupal) and for what Texrat wants I think wordpress.com is the best to concentrate on publishing and forget about the rest.
11 months, 1 week ago by qgil
wordpress.com is too limiting, you can't do much even if you are willing to pay.
Wordpress is not that difficult to host on your own and @texrat belong to technical type.
11 months, 1 week ago by tabrez
Movable Type is known to be resource hungry. Not the static pages it generates, but the other stuff around it. Plus that the system is a nightmare to work with, compared to Wordpress (though that is a personal preference).
11 months, 1 week ago by hypocrisy
Beside, if you have a hosting provider that provides one-click installs (similar to Installatron or Fantastico), then you get the extra benefits of having your own Wordpress install, but simplicity similar to what wordpress.com has to offer.
Wordpress.com is good, by all means, but as someone wrote earlier; a tad limited.
11 months, 1 week ago by hypocrisy
oh - sidenote: I'm running my own blog on Wordpress development version (2.7-RC1-10041), so I'm not a good person in that sense ;-)
11 months, 1 week ago by myrtti
I do svn updates but the release versions, not RCs :)
11 months, 1 week ago by tabrez
Until now I have seen Texrat quite happy with a forum to discuss (ITt) and his very basic internal blog. What else does he need?
Anyway, this is easy for Texrat to decide: look at the features wordpress.com offers and see if this is enough for you. If not, host your wordpress. I really doubt you need something wordpress is not providing you and can be fount in MT.
11 months, 1 week ago by qgil
I considered Wordpress.com, because hosting my own is not something I enjoy. I'd like hosting to be Somebody Else's Problem, found the hosted solutions limiting. My number one requirement is control over the URL space. So I'm stuck with self-hosted WP, but luckily Dreamhost's one-click install/upgrade is brilliant.
11 months, 1 week ago by mandrl
I did set up a blog on Wordpress.
What I'm wondering is if it's possible for posts there to show up in another blog on Movable Type.
11 months, 1 week ago by Texrat
Search for a plugin that imports rss-feeds and you should be set.
11 months, 1 week ago by hypocrisy
It looks like NoseRub is just for profiles/identities...
11 months, 1 week ago by Texrat
Okay, I found plugins like Feeds.App and others that do the trick.
But I don't have access to the server hosting my Movable Type blog so I can't install additional plugins.
sigh...
11 months, 1 week ago by Texrat