There are plans afoot here in the Human bloghold.
I have decided that I am done with using WordPress for blogging, and would love to use something else. I had a wild ride on what evolved from good ol’ b2, but I don’t think that the WordPress project is a proper fit for me these days.
There are things that I think WordPress should’ve had natively a long time ago (Hello, OpenID) that still haven’t made it in, or should have been there a long time ago. There’s a lot of time spent on these other joints, ruckuses, etc. that could probably have been better served in fixing some of the things on this side.
I used to get excited every time a new version of WordPress came out. These days, I just dutifully upgrade to the latest so I’m not the bastard on the box here that has a version that’s 15 updates out of date and screws everyone else up. I’ve stopped caring so much.
I considered Habari as a replacement, but Habari is still not installable on my other hosting package, which means I don’t want to bring it here, where it should still be just as much of a pain in the ass to install.
I won’t touch MovableType. A lot of the bitching between the MT and WP community is what motivates me to bail, as well as the fact that I just don’t like the MT software when I did try using it.
I have to find something that I feel like setting up, that doesn’t suck all that much, is fairly lightweight, and gets me back into the excitement of wanting to talk about myself on the internet.
I hope to be done with the WordPress community by the end of June across all my domains.
Speaking of domains and the subject of this post, I am planning on moving this blog, with whatever new software I have chosen, down from this subdomain, to the primary pixelechoes.net name. I avoided it for quite a long time, but I think it’s time to move it. I will try to be kind enough to have it redirect links from old posts and the old URL to the new URL.
Then I can also get back into setting up my copy of ZenPhoto to replace my copy of Gallery 2, which just got ridiculously bloated and was killing things on the server.
So yes. This is a month for change, hahaha.

By the way…
24 April, 2009 in Normal by Justin | No comments
I just installed a new comments system called IntenseDebate.
I meant to install this months ago, but you know how life gets…
Let me know if you all have trouble with it.
Tags: Commenting, IntenseDebate, WordPress Plugins