Site Upgrade
This website is being has been migrated from Wordpress to Textpattern. Some breakage is going to occur, but I’ll do my best to minimise it.
Known Issues
RSS feed: The URI has changed from http://www.digitalearth.com.au/feed/ to http://www.digitalearth.com.au/rss/ [Done: permanent redirect in place]
Atom feed: The URI has changed from http://www.digitalearth.com.au/feed/atom to http://www.digitalearth.com.au/atom/ [Done: permanent redirect in place]
Additional pages: The about and other pages will be added back over time. [Done]
Layout/template: Will evolve over time.
Thanks for your patience!
Why the change from Wordpress to Textpattern?
All appears OK from this end so far.
Luke — 14 October 2007, 20:31
While I was running this site on WordPress I was also running other sites using Textpattern. There are several reasons why I migrated to Textpattern:
1. Fewer upgrades. WordPress upgrades are regular events, and they can break plug-ins. Just keeping somewhere near up to date was a hassle.
2. I’ve observed more security issues with Wordpress, not that that in itself means it is less secure than Textpattern. (Just before the upgrade someone managed to register themselves as a bogus user even though I had user registration turned off.)
3. I prefer the Textpattern templating system.
4. Textpattern is lightweight, not trying to be everything to everyone, and does pretty much what I need.
There are a few downsides to using Textpattern.
1. Not as fast as Wordpress with caching.
2. There are a few additional features I’d like to have, but they are not critical.
Andrew Hallam — 16 October 2007, 05:40