So far, it just seems to make the admin interface in WordPress show up a little differently. If you have any knowledge of the difference, please let me know!

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You’d actually be wrong about the install base :)

WP is more visible, but MT has been around longer and powers a lot of corporate sites.

Your closed source vs open source argument doesn’t hold much water, as MT does not have obfuscated code and has always been available to personal users.

The key differences are in the actual underlying architecture. MT is written in Perl and uses clear namespaces, whereas WP is written in PHP and has no understanding of namespaces.

MT like any software may have holes and bugs, but it’s a hell of a lot harder for anyone to do any damage.

Michele

Ok, let’s do that.

MT is a proprietary tool that has only been open sourced for about 3 months now, and with an install base far lower than WP, which has always been an open source tool and has an install base many times the size of the MT install base.

Given this, of course there have been security issues found with WP. I bet you several pints of the black stuff that there are security issues existing in MT right now. With a smaller market penetration and having been closed source for so long there’s no surprise that there have been no publicised vulnerabilities.

The recent vulnerabilities in WP were found proactively by a member of the community and with open source MT now available I’d be keeping an eye out for those too.

However, given your comments, I think maybe tip no. 5 will be a security tip for WP users :)

Thanks for the comments!

Let’s call a spade a spade. Most SME bloggers know next to nothing about security. If you want to get them blogging you need to get them onto a platform that doesn’t have security updates every two to three weeks.

WordPress is constantly falling prey to serious security issues, so it’s a non-runner.

MovableType hasn’t had a security related issue in ages – I can’t even remember the last one.

Of course using a hosted solution such as typepad can do away with the headaches entirely.

Michele

I knew you’d chime in on this one with some MT lovin’ :)

You’re dead right about security being an important factor. Yes, some high profile bloggers like GrayWolf got hacked, but I wouldn’t necessarily blame the WordPress platform:

Plain and simple the problem rests on my shoulders for not keeping my wordpress install up to date. I was at least one or two versions behind. While updating wordpress isn’t hard, it does become a bit of a bother if you run multiple sites, but being lazy is no excuse for lax security.
GrayWolf

Good call on Vox, one I’ve heard of but don’t know a lot about – I’ll check it out

Rob, I agree 100% – this is my preferred blogging solution.

Thanks for the comments guys.

The one thing I would have to caution people about is security regardless of which blogging solution you opt for. Yes I know it’s boring, but it’s really embarassing and dangerous if your blog gets hacked. I’m amazed at the number of relatively high profile bloggers who have been hacked in the past.

MT has a better security record than WP, so that’s one of the reasons I moved back to it.

For free blogging platforms to play with I’d highly recommend looking at Vox as well (http://www.vox.com)

Michele