Comments on: MovableType Sucks http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks The Weblog of Erik J. Barzeski Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:40:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Rivero http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks#comment-50694 Michael Rivero Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:41:46 +0000 http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks/#comment-50694 Thanks for the feedback. I switched to Drupal and I am not looking back. Thanks for the feedback.

I switched to Drupal and I am not looking back.

]]> By: Erik J. Barzeski http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks#comment-50693 Erik J. Barzeski Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:27:13 +0000 http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks/#comment-50693 [quote comment="50675"]Try WordPress.[/quote] You're a <a href="http://nslog.com/2006/10/28/wordpress_likes_and_dislikes">bit late</a>. :-D Jason said on November 11, 2008:

Try WordPress.

You're a bit late. :-D

]]> By: Jason http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks#comment-50675 Jason Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:31:13 +0000 http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks/#comment-50675 Try WordPress. Try WordPress.

]]> By: Michael Rivero http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks#comment-48231 Michael Rivero Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:38:44 +0000 http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks/#comment-48231 Movable Type's biggest problem is that they do not have a mass delete function. I have 80,00 entries at my website. I cannot clear them out in MySQL because of the poor design of the MT database (and no documentation available). MT's official recommendation is to delete old entries by hand, one at a time! 80,000? Yep, 80,000, one at a time! If anyone knows of an outside tool to do proper entry dletion of older articles in MT IN BULK please email it to rivero@hbentertain.com Movable Type's biggest problem is that they do not have a mass delete function. I have 80,00 entries at my website. I cannot clear them out in MySQL because of the poor design of the MT database (and no documentation available). MT's official recommendation is to delete old entries by hand, one at a time!

80,000?

Yep, 80,000, one at a time!

If anyone knows of an outside tool to do proper entry dletion of older articles in MT IN BULK please email it to rivero@hbentertain.com

]]> By: jive http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks#comment-48066 jive Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:27:05 +0000 http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks/#comment-48066 Linked templates are powerful and good to use if you have a lot of blogs in MovableType but they are at the same time tedious to set all your templates up to use them. But instead of spending 40 hours updating 10 blogs that use the same templates you'll only spend 10 setting them up and rebuilding, and once they are setup with linked templates its good to go with just a rebuild for each blog which will only take and hour or so for 10. We have over 50 blogs at work and many use the same template, and we have about 2 main types of templates and then 2 or 3 custom ones. You can imagine what I deal with I get new template changes :p but we have to use the static build ones rather than dynamic. Luckily its just once a year. MovableType is very slow though, 4.1's search is a lot faster than 3.0 though. Linked templates are powerful and good to use if you have a lot of blogs in MovableType but they are at the same time tedious to set all your templates up to use them. But instead of spending 40 hours updating 10 blogs that use the same templates you'll only spend 10 setting them up and rebuilding, and once they are setup with linked templates its good to go with just a rebuild for each blog which will only take and hour or so for 10. We have over 50 blogs at work and many use the same template, and we have about 2 main types of templates and then 2 or 3 custom ones. You can imagine what I deal with I get new template changes :p but we have to use the static build ones rather than dynamic. Luckily its just once a year. MovableType is very slow though, 4.1's search is a lot faster than 3.0 though.

]]> By: Dhryland Software Review Central - WordPress (NEW!) » Wordpress module installed http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks#comment-43813 Dhryland Software Review Central - WordPress (NEW!) » Wordpress module installed Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:05:28 +0000 http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks/#comment-43813 [...] the primary module on the site. Oh, and I’d like to take this moment to mention that I hate MovableType. Filed under: [...] [...] the primary module on the site. Oh, and I’d like to take this moment to mention that I hate MovableType. Filed under: [...]

]]> By: Jogin.com :: Weblog http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks#comment-7419 Jogin.com :: Weblog Tue, 18 May 2004 17:27:22 +0000 http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks/#comment-7419 <strong>Choice</strong> For a couple of days now, I've been carefully considering the pros and cons of using WordPress and Movable Type, respectively. Before even considering leaving Movable Type for another product, I certainly want to know what it is I'm leaving, and thus u... Choice

For a couple of days now, I've been carefully considering the pros and cons of using WordPress and Movable Type, respectively. Before even considering leaving Movable Type for another product, I certainly want to know what it is I'm leaving, and thus u...

]]> By: Teal Sunglasses http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks#comment-7418 Teal Sunglasses Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:19:41 +0000 http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks/#comment-7418 <strong>Movable type slowdowns...</strong> One thing some folks have come up against: Movable Type doesn't seem to scale well to larger sites. Here's the latest complaint. This is something I've noticed here -- rebuild time takes longer and longer, to the point where browsers time out and I get... Movable type slowdowns...

One thing some folks have come up against: Movable Type doesn't seem to scale well to larger sites. Here's the latest complaint. This is something I've noticed here -- rebuild time takes longer and longer, to the point where browsers time out and I get...

]]> By: Teal Sunglasses http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks#comment-7417 Teal Sunglasses Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:14:58 +0000 http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks/#comment-7417 <strong>Movable type slowdowns...</strong> One thing some folks have come up against: Movable Type doesn't seem to scale well to larger sites. Here's the latest complaint. This is something I've noticed here -- rebuild time takes longer and longer, to the point where browsers time out and I get... Movable type slowdowns...

One thing some folks have come up against: Movable Type doesn't seem to scale well to larger sites. Here's the latest complaint. This is something I've noticed here -- rebuild time takes longer and longer, to the point where browsers time out and I get...

]]> By: steve http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks#comment-7412 steve Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:48:19 +0000 http://nslog.com/2004/02/08/movabletype_sucks/#comment-7412 After e-mailing with Erik, he's fuxored. ;) He was already doing what I was doing. Which was creating indexes for ALL types of archive lists and simply using PHP to pull the info. I used the mantra "never create a list outside of an index" What had killed me was the date-based archives. Once, I changed those over, my times fell drastically. Oh well. For those who hover in the 300-500 posts range, it's worth the change. After e-mailing with Erik, he's fuxored. ;) He was already doing what I was doing. Which was creating indexes for ALL types of archive lists and simply using PHP to pull the info. I used the mantra "never create a list outside of an index" What had killed me was the date-based archives. Once, I changed those over, my times fell drastically. Oh well. For those who hover in the 300-500 posts range, it's worth the change.

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