Moving from Movable Type to WordPress

A few things I have noticed about WordPress though. Check out the plugins screen and you may want to enable something like Textile2 or Markdown. If your “Delete Checked Comments” button isn’t working in comments mass edit mode (the first place an MT user goes while deleting all spam comments) check http://wordpress.org/support/3/6170. If your apostrophe looks weird, especially in Konqueror in FC2 for example, I think that’s some sort of font problem. I don’t know how to solve it yet, and I probably won’t bother with trying to figure out how for some time. Make sure you’re not using any software that blocks sending referer: sometimes WordPress checks it and silently fails.

For posting I switched to mt.el. This is a slightly modified version I made to not require my password to be in my .emacs and to change a few places integers were used instead of T and NIL. I recommend you (setq weblog-publish-on-save nil). Otherwise when you weblog-submit-no-publish you’ll publish anyway. Instead use C-c C-p when you don’t want to publish and C-c C-s when you want to publish. I should probably bind C-x C-s to weblog-submit-publish so it works like blogger.el.