{"id":729,"date":"2007-09-24T21:22:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T21:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/for_my_friends.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:32","slug":"for_my_friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/for_my_friends.shtml","title":{"rendered":"For My Friends on Word Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessie Gardner of <a href=\"http:\/\/plasticmind.com\/\">Plastic Mind Design<\/a> posts <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.plasticmind.com\/cms\/why-you-should-upgrade-to-mt4\/\">Ten Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to MT 4 Instead of WP 2.3<\/a>.  Or, if you count funny, maybe it&#8217;s seven reasons.  Or eleven.<br \/>\nWhatever.  Now&#8217;s the time for you WP&#8217;ers to come over to the MT world with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.com\/\">MT4<\/a>.  Still free for personal use, a revitalized community, nifty new features, modular templates, MT Open Source on the horizon.  Come on in, the water&#8217;s fine.<br \/>\nIf you do make the jump, let me know how you like MT4.  I&#8217;m waiting (less and less patiently) for some of my must have plugins (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.majordojo.com\/projects\/photogallery.php\">Photogallery<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staggernation.com\/mtplugins\/RightFields\/\">Rightfields<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/plugins.movalog.com\/mt-blogroll\/\">MTBlogroll<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/everitz.com\/mt\/notifier\/index.php\">MT-Notifier<\/a> to name a few) to get upgraded before I can make the jump. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessie Gardner of Plastic Mind Design posts Ten Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to MT 4 Instead of WP 2.3. Or, if you count funny, maybe it&#8217;s seven reasons. 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