Well, that’s it. For the second time in a few months (all revolving around changes with my web host, but that’s another story), my Wordpress install was hosed. Something with the caching mechanism it uses gets screwed up, and I get ugly errors and junk when the pages load. Last time I lost some comments and a draft post…luckily this time I don’t think I lost anything, but it’s still annoying to have to do cleanup.
I’ve been keeping my eye on another blogging platform, MovableType, and think I’ll try moving to that. I was hoping to wait until they released an upcoming open source version; currently it only offers a “free for personal use” version. At this point I think I’ll take the plunge anyhow and maybe move to the open source version once it comes out.
I’ve read some comparisons of the two, and I think I should be able to do what I do in Wordpress in MT4, and supposedly some of the things are even easier. The big difference I can see is that where WP sort of hacks together caching so it loads faster and doesn’t hit the database so often, MT builds posts into static pages. So, here’s to looking forward to some changes in the coming weeks - with at least a new theme, and better stability!
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