It’s taken several months to convert my blogs over to WordPress from MovableType – as noted previously, MT’s latest version (4) gave me so many headaches that I finally dumped it. It was extremely user un-friendly and was nearly impossible to customize in the manner that I wanted to. While the actual conversion process to WordPress wasn’t difficult, I had a LOT of problems with the “theme” (Cutline) that I’m now using. Overall, I really like the new layout but try as I might, I could not get the pictures at the top of each page to rotate (for the most part, every time you click on the refresh button, a new image should appear). I decided to make one last ditch effort to determine what the problem was and, as luck would have it, I was able to get it to work! It appears as if the problem had to do with the order in which WordPress and Cutline are installed: from what I can determine, it appears as if importing the data from MT into WordPress must be saved for the very end of the process. Regardless, it now works and I’m happy with it.
The photos at the top of this blog now rotate randomly each time the page is visited/refreshed. Even better is that I was able to locate photos that I’ve taken and used them for the ones that appear. All in all, it’s been a fairly trying experience but, in the end, everything is now working properly. I’ve still got one of my blogs on MT but that’s only because I haven’t been able to locate a plugin to make it perform in that manner I wish it to.