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.