The Big Debate
This entry doesn’t have much to do with food or cooking, I’m afraid.
I’ve become somewhat frustrated with the platform that this blog runs on. I’m using MovableType, which I have always loved, but which is becoming increasingly frustrating for a few reasons.
Most of my other blogs (Madison Dining Online, Cooking Out Of The Box, etc) have been implemented using the latest versions of Wordpress.
I have become extremely impressed with the growth of Wordpress within just the last year or so. MovableType seems to have come to a screeching halt for the average user, while Wordpress is forging forward, mainly by the efforts of the community that uses it. The plugins are terrific, and the flexibility is really impressive.
But. I have hundreds of entries on Cuisine Capers, with hundreds of photos. In addition to that, Google LOVES this blog. Migrating to Wordpress will be a very painful process, and it will set me back a great deal in terms of search engines, etc.
Having said that, I now get over 2000 spam messages a day. Yes, that is right. In a mere 24 hours my filters catch anywhere between 2000 and 3000 messages. This has made the commenting, trackback and interaction portions of Cuisine Capers an impossible goal. All comments are getting caught in the filters, and it is impossible to visually inspect the comments to find the legitimate ones. So, they all get deleted. I’ve also had to turn of trackbacks. On top of that, when I get hit with pings and spam comments in rapid succession, it takes down the server that this blog is running on. That makes my host very, very unhappy.
So, do I live through the painful migration, and then spend months rebuilding search engine traffic to avoid the above situation?
Decisions, Decisions.
Do it! Migrating from MT to WP isn’t as painful as you might think in terms of importing your entries. Not sure what it’ll do with your Google ranking, but won’t it be worth getting rid of that spam?