whayworth

Actually, the latest CVS version, 1.3-alpha-5, has the CMS-like feature of being able to create entirely separated and independent pages located out of the main blog.
This, in addition to other modifications that you can find by Googling, should enable you to turn your blog into a hybrid or mostly a CMS.

I would suggest using WP Blacklist to block all those spam comments. At least in my opinion, a blog without comments isn’t a blog.
To use WP Blacklist (I would give the address, but sorry, I don’t have it anymore), you’ll need to load it with a blacklist, preferably Jay Allen’s. https://www.jayallen.org/comment_spam/blacklist.txt (I think that’s it; I know the part up to blacklist.txt is correct).

Oh! I have no experience with Perl whatsoever, and thus would not be able to do that. Even when I tried adjusting the Blogger template to MT’s specs, it still produced an error message and no results.
Whereas the WordPress tool was simply flawless, and got it on the first try.

::laughs::
Yeah; and when you look inside, you realize how much more you can do with WordPress with regard to redistribution. With MT you can distribute patches and plugins; with WordPress you can redistribute your own hacked version of WP.
It probably did require a good bit of modification before you could get it to work, did it not?

Thanks, Kafkaesqui!
Your comment actually reminded me of yet another feature that didn’t work for me with Movable Type but has been perfected with WordPress: imports from other tools. I used Blogger for the longest time, because originally I didn’t have a website. Then I moved to FTP publishing; in total I accumulated 177 posts in Blogger. When I moved from Blogger to Movable Type, I tried desperately to import in order to help my confused readers, to no avail. The import tool in MT simply did not work. Harrumph!
But when I switched to WordPress last night, both imports were quick and simple. Now I’ve gotten rid of my Blogger and MT installation on my website and moved absolutely everything to WordPress.

Oh, and I forgot to mention: I was disappointed for MT’s failure to comply with standards, whereas WordPress meets them 100%. I can appreciate this as a developer.