If everything went right, you shouldn’t notice too much different about my site today. But underneath, everything changed: I went back to WordPress from Habari.
Why? Mostly because of the ecosystem: There are lots of plugins and programs that work with WordPress that don’t work with Habari yet. I was working with WordPress on another project and found it a great plug-in for adding time-lines to a WordPress blog. That kind of stuff is years away from coming to Habari.
Also, because Habari is still an alpha-level project. It’s not finished yet. It’s pretty, and the code base underneath it is supposed to be really excellent, but I don’t want to work with the code base. And when I do try to find bugs, I can’t report them.
And there are a lot of things that WordPress just does better. For example: “Remember Me” on the login page actually works. It automatically replaces regular vertical quote marks with the pretty quotes. I can hit Ctrl-I and it will make the text italic, instead of me having to manually code in <em> tags. Updating to the latest version of the software is as easy as pushing a button (no need to open up FileZilla at all!). And, new in the latest version of WordPress, you can embed videos just by including the URL on its own line. For example:
Lastly, and most unforgivable, Habari does not have a built-in export option of any kind. If it weren’t for this script (mirror) that somebody wrote, I would have been having to export each entry by hand (or else write my own script, which would have taken at least as long). Not cool Habari!
So, anyways, let me know if you see anything that looks broken. Thanks!
Will this change also lead to me posting more often? MAYBE!
