Recently, there’s been quite a few ‘switchers’ from MovableType to WordPress noted here in the devblog, with an attendant rise in MT-related questions in the forums. For those of you switching (or considering the move) the following recent articles will be of great use:
Shelley Powers at Burningbird has written several articles detailing her move to WordPress; these are perhaps the most helpful:
- Moving to a New Weblogging Tool discusses her decision to change blogging tools and the factors that led her to choose WordPress.
- Making the Move from MovableType to WordPress details her experience with the process of migration.
Carthik has written a detailed guide for importing your MT entries into WordPress over here.
Last but not least, Gregory Auld at stuff/things has written the first in a series of articles comparing the templating systems of MovableType and WordPress.