If you have been all over the internet searching for the perfect blogging platform for your blog, you have more than likely looked at several blogging platforms. In doing so, you more than likely have seen WordPress and Movable Type, mentioned repeatedly. One of the biggest differences in these two is that Movable Type uses perl while on the other hand WordPress uses PHP to create a blog and blog posts. Since they both offer many customization options, both are able to make it possible for newcomers of the world of blogging to have their own with out having a lot of technical knowledge. Since WordPress and Movable Type are both compatible with HTML, if you do know some, you can create links and tags as well as many other neat features on your blog posts.

Here you will find the essential key differences of WordPress and Movable Type.

Price

 Here is where you will find the essential difference between these two. Movable Type wants to make money, and it is a company out to make a profit. The software runs around $70.00. Whereas alternatively WordPress is free, all you need to do is downloading and then install the program. Keep in mind that many people feel it is easier and quicker to download the WordPress than the Movable Type.

Page loading

 WordPress seems very animated in dynamics as each time a blog post is pulled up for viewing it is created immediately in the database. On the other hand, Movable Type is immobile and static as the whole blog page is created and then stored. However, the pages made with Movable Type do load faster. There is a delay in WordPress, so this may also affect server performance on a high traffic blog or website as their page is pulled up from the database every time the page is requested.

The pages made with Movable Type are so much easier to backup, as each page can be put on backup individually, whereas, the entire database will need to be backed up when you want to backup your blog using WordPress. However, keep in mind that both of these blogging platforms are earnestly working to become more flexible in their use. For instance, WordPress has developed a cache system, which helps the more popular pages become easier and faster to download, and Movable Type is going about adding a more time saving dynamic experience to its blogging platform.

Customized categories

 Movable Type does offer some category options and you can do a bit of customizable category based syndication, however it does not come close to the perfection of using WordPress, since WordPress does support the very best in customizable syndication for blog posts, with it ease and flexibility.

Tags

 Movable Type supports Smarty, while Wordpress does not, which gives Movable Type an upper hand in the terms of working with tags.

 
You can create non-blog Web pages using WordPress, where the option is nonexistent in Movable Type. WordPress allows you the freedom of creating other pages and forms for such as search and feedback as well as content management. WordPress is the best means of publishing your own content, as it is free while offering you more resourcefulness than does the Movable Type.

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