Migrating to wordpress. The saga continues

Well, the migration has been plodding along, and as I have been asked by a few people, here are some of my thoughts so far.  The negatives:

• Migrating data is a bitch.
  Moving off any system to another system is not easy, and if you are planning to use it for the same exercise (i.e. blogging) there is little reward for the investment.  Same goes for migrating email systems folks.  I am doing it to try something new, and to take advantage of some of the positives.
• URL’s
  refs in WordPress are case sensitive.  I have a “dload” directory where all the items I make available for download reside.  I ftp’s that directory to my wordpress site, but the URL links do not all work, until I change the casing to be correct.  Domino (on windows) spoiled me that way.
• SPAM
  Already have had a lot of spam on my site. Askismet has helped a great deal to block them, but a few have got through. Kudos to blogsphere there.
• .nsf
  There is something great for an admin person to have control.  You can never have more control then having everything in your .nsf file.  I just need to let go of having that need to control the data. Dreamhost already do backups for you, and you can manually ftp/backup if you need to. But, local replication is the killer feature of Lotus Notes. Never forget that.

And now some positives.

• Something new
  It’s nice to work with something new as a hobby.  It makes me want to blog more, and more relevant things.  What do they say about a change…
• Themes
  If you are design “challenged”, themes in wordpress are for you.  It makes changing looks of your site a breeze.  I am using the Carrington theme here, more or less unmodified.  There are things about it I want to change, and will get there as I start to play, but if I wanted to modify everything in one swoop, it’s easy enough.
• Plugins
  There are stacks of plugins for WordPress.  If there is a new funky feature out on the web, there is a plugin.  Typically they are free too.  I don’t have to wait for new features to be made available in blogsphere or the domino blog template anymore.
  A nice example is the recommendation on installing the wptouch plugin. Now my site looks like this on a mobile device.

pmooney.net on mobile device

That’s it so far.  I may not continue on WordPress forever, but so far it is a very interesting experiment.