Reading over what I’ve been writing about WordPress, I realize that it sounds like I’m converting completely. This is not the case: my personal website, journal.amanita.net, is still MT and I plan to keep it that way for quite a while. I greatly prefer MT’s templating system over WP’s – I don’t want to have to rely on others to write my design for me; although most of the skins on my MT site are written by others, I have tweaked the code and I can read the code. WordPress uses PHP for everything, and I’m not familiar enough with it to be comfortable working with it. I expect to use my diet journal to be helpful in learning PHP, and potentially down the road I could end up being familiar with it enough to switch, but that won’t happen for a long time yet.
Besides, MT is my friend. I’ve been using it for almost three years and I still enjoy using it. I don’t want to switch yet. WordPress is great, and I’m using it for my diet journal rather than just starting a second blog in my MT installation, but I like MT and I’m sticking with it.
That is why I couldnt use WP…the php loops were far to confusing for me to code with. I stuck to GreyMatter for my blog, its small, but it does what I need. As for my photolog, I just use a database with the nessities written in php (not by myself) and I can make a template like I want with and html and css using varibles like MT and GM. Nifty.