Migration to WordPress
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve now migrated my site to WordPress 2.8 from Drupal 6. I’m almost completely done, and I started last night around 6pm. All I have left to migrate are a few static pages about my research and projects and my recipes.
I was mucking with my Drupal site for most of the day in my free time while I was either building Fortran code or waiting on a run on Bluefire (more details on this in a future post). I’ve been bad at posting regularly over the past two weeks partly due to being quite busy and partly because of Drupal deficencies. My main complaint is with the content editor in Drupal. To me, the biggest part of my site is the editor, where I will spend most of my time. In Drupal, it was a pain to use for many reasons including having to set up my own WYSIWYG editor and configure the image upload/selection tool. It was really the images that pushed me over the edge at the end of the day yesterday. The time I spent on the site was essentially all devoted to getting a satisfactory way to upload and insert images into my posts. The end result: I couldn’t find one.
I originally chose Drupal for its power, but in the end it was it’s power and flexibility that drove me away. With WordPress, the things I want to ‘just work’ do, and I can now spend my time working on sections like my recipe and mileage databases rather than core functionality. I suspect this will be a better use of my time.
