Working on a project has compelled me to examine tools that I’ve looked at previously. One of them is WordPress and boy…has this tool ever matured!

Not only are there alot of themes and plugins, the administration capabilities and user interface is really well done. It works really well. So well, I’m thinking seriously of climbing the learning curve and using this tool for several things going forward.

Just for grins, I exported all of this blog’s posts (Typepad exports a Movable Type-formatted text file) and imported it into WordPress. It worked flawlessly though all the image URL’s point back here to this blog, so if I opted to change platforms myself I’d have to re-insert every single image in every single post. Tedious…but possible.

There is also a hosted WordPress offering worth looking at too.