Searching the way to migrate your Movable Type to WordPress?

Your search ends here.

If you are on the road to pick one between Movable Type and WordPress – you are probably baffled about the similarities and differences they share with each other. Keep reading the post below and find out which CMS reigns the highest and how to migrate to it in the easiest and affordable way.

Movable Type is a weblog publishing system, sharing many similarities with WordPress. Started in 2001 and treated as a powerful and efficient tool for blogs creating at that time, it failed to keep pace with the fast­moving industry and now finds it hard to present a serious competition to WordPress. Movable Type surely has merits of its own (simple installation, ease­of­use, engaged community) that helped it to gain the popularity among the largest and most influential

websites and blogs on the web. Despite all the advantages associated with the platform, it indeed has a bunch of disadvantages that to some extent explain the lower popularity comparing to WordPress:

1. The major concern with the Movable Type is that it is not an open source tool that means that the budget issue is not out of the window.

2. Having a bit steeper learning curve than WordPress, users with little to no skills find it hard to work with Movable Type.

3. Besides, its library of plugins and extensions is far away from the same in WordPress, offering definitely less scope for customization.

WordPress, contrastingly, is currently listed as the most popular and used CMS solution out there. So much so that to many it seems the default choice. The platform provides enough functionality to create eye­catching websites without slaving over

mountains of code. Millions of users all over the world gravitate towards the platform due to its key benefits:

Endless Simplicity: the interface of the platform is extremely intuitive that makes it #1 choice for coders and non­coders alike. Extensive Functionality: a gazillion of ready­to­go plugins and extensions (which are mostly free or very reasonably priced) makes it easy to add any extra functionality to a website and let it grow as huge and complex as required. SEO­Friendly: being favoured by Google and other search engines that makes the software beneficial in terms of high positions in top rankings. User­Friendly: there’s no long training required to take full advantage of the platform. One­Size­Fits­All Solution: the platform caters the needs of both the green hands and the veterans of website running allowing them to create a website to meet any exact specifications.

Overall, WordPress provides much more bells and whistles compared to Movable Type and your fantasy will definitely find no limits with it.

In case you’ve made the right choice to stick with WordPress – there’s one more challenge to step over – to migrate the content.CMS2CMS service can more than help to make your conversion as seamless and trouble­free as possible. To reflect it – have a look at the guideline below and see how simple it is to convert to WordPress without hiring an expert:

1. Initiate the migration process by downloading CMS2CMS: Movable Type to WordPress Migration Plugin from WordPress Plugin Directory.

2. When ready:

Download the plugin to your local PC; Extract the folder from the zip file; Install this plugin to your WordPress site.

3. Create your CMS2CMS Account there by specifying your email and password.

4. Connect Movable Type – just type in its URL address and that’s it.

5. Select Migration Preferences by activating those you wish to be imported to WordPress. Remember, transferring thepages, content images and internal links are within the power of the tool. Try Demo Migration to see the service in action.

6. If you are absolutely satisfied with the results of Demo – Start Full Migration. After the click, your Movable Type website data will be imported to WordPress.

Full migration is successfully performed.

Congratulations!