We’ve begun the migration of our blogs to WordPress. When we started all our blogs, we put them on different platforms to ensure we knew them all. Now, we’re past that. It’s time to get serious.

BloggingHelp was our original WordPress blog. After we had 2 on Movable Type and one Drupal, we decided to stick with WordPress for all new installs. Faster. Cleaner. Easier to maintain.

Today we started the migration of blogs to entirely WordPress powered. The first to move was Vancouver Coffee. Next will be Blogaholics. And lastly Baking Low Fat, which is on Drupal.

Why do we choose WordPress?

  • The installs are fast and clean
  • Upgrading is simple
  • Plugins. Oh, we love them.
  • Widgets. A la Blogware, but better.
  • Easy to add pages, links, etc.
  • SPAM!!

We just couldn’t handle the volume of incoming comment and trackback spam. The comment spam was at such a high rate that we had to delete it every day… too much was getting through, and too much was being held for moderation. And those we deleted often were stll visible, which was annoying.

So, now we’re all happy. After the migration is complete we’ll be able to take our honeymoon without needing to monitor the blog spam levels like crazy people.

Tags: