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Our family website (http://family.kraft.im) was experiencing a little problem where it wouldn't update if we posted something to it and you accessed it via casadekraft.com. The glitch has been resolved and everyone can now see the same content.

Movable Type or Wordpress?

I've been using MT forever, it seems. Since v. 2.5 (now on MT5.02). Overall, I've loved it. I like that I can manage all of our blogs (mine, V's, the family site, Catholic Thinker) plus a non-blog site (kraft.im, that, ideally, will expand in time).

Lately, I've been less than impressed with plugins. Seems like after MT 3, people have been jumping off the bandwagon. Many plugins in the directory are for MT 3. Some have been made in the MT 4 era. Few seem to have been updated for MT 5.

Themes/styles are another. I'm not very graphically talented, so I want a basic template that looks good and I'm comfortable tweaking it from there. It has been increasingly more difficult to find good themes for MT.

I've started playing on Wordpress,com with a blog. I've jumped over to adding WP to my site and running a beta blog on it. I'm impressed with the ease of adding templates (enter your FTP password and it's done). Same for plugins.

I won't drop MT old-turkey. I think my wife is happy with it for her and the family's blog. The kraft.im site makes me sense to me (at the moment) to run via MT, although I'd want to figure out a way to have my blog entries filter to the home page (done automatically now via MT's website-over-blog structure).

The commenting system differences seem not to matter. If someone is going to comment on my work, Facebook seem to be the way to go.

Any thoughts out there?

Tons of bots online try to add spam to my blog via comments. They're all almost the same...

Those who read the blog at http://b.kraft.im will see some changes. I didn't like the "Disciples" style that has been in place for a few weeks now.

If anyone has any good ideas on how to find MT 5-compatible themes/styles, drop me a line!

Since I'm alone in Atlanta in my hotel, I'm "live-tweeting" during the game. Follow me at twitter.com/kraft .

As of 12/17/2008, 8:45 pm

The utcatholic.org website is undergoing planned maintenance. The website and all content will be accessible during this time; however, no changes are possible, including podcasts and new news updates.

I pushed through a massive redesign of the website today. As many of the longtime readers know, I started blogging in 2002 with "Random Musings" and switched to "Praying Young" about a year ago.

In the end, I didn't like that transition, so I merged all of the entries from both blogs and transferred them to the root of brandonkraft.com. Every personal blog entry I've posted are all on this site.

RSS feeds have been setup to redirect to the new feed, but a individual feed reader's mileage may vary.

Hey everyone,

I just realized that I never actually announced on this blog that I'm wrapping up new development on "Random Musings" and moving to a new home at "Praying Young". The new site is accessible, like this one was, at brandonkraft.com but the RSS/Atom feed is different.

Random Musings will be kept online in archive status at brandonkraft.com/weblog

Thanks!

Yes. yes. I've turned on ads. The main reason? I have finite resources and this is a hobby for me. I'd like to ensure my hobbies do not take up any more of my budget than needed!

Despite my attempts, it is difficult to maintain a blog while working, spending time with a loved one who is finally in the same city, and now plan for a wedding.

My intention is to become better, but you know what they say about the road paved with good intentions.