Goodbye, WordPress
Posted by unbrand on 30 November 2005 | 8 Comments
It’s been a fun couple of years, but it’s time to say goodbye to WordPress. Awhile ago I migrated from MovableType to WordPress but now I’ve just finished migrating to Typo. Why migrate? Several reasons:
- Oracle bought InnoDB, one of the main engines driving MySQL. The future of InnoDB as a component of MySQL is unclear at best. About a year ago I started getting into PostgreSQL quite heavily and it’s so much more grown-up than MySQL it’s not even funny.
- WordPress only works with MySQL. I’ve tried porting to PostgreSQL, but it looks like abstracting the DB layer away from WordPress is quite a big job. To my knowledge, nobody’s done it yet.
- I’m getting tired of PHP. When you come from the Java world, PHP is a breath of fresh air. For awhile. Then PHP’s loosey-goosey nature starts biting you in the ass.
- I wanted to play with Ruby on Rails. Typo is a blog system built with Ruby on Rails. And Typo runs quite happily on PostgreSQL.
I’ve been fortunate enough to meet the WordPress author and he’s a really great guy. I hope he continues to have tons of success with WordPress, but right now Typo’s got my attention.
In all, it took a couple days of work to migrate from WordPress to Typo and that included migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL. The migration bit wasn’t bad at all—the trickiest part was the .htaccess stuff to redirect from WP-stylee to Typo.
The theme for this blog is called Warfare and it’s from simpltry. I very much agree with the author of the theme about shaking up blog design conventions. Simply-styled blogs are quite popular now, so…
Hope you like.