After a long period of wanting to move my ailing blog from Movable Type to Drupal, I have finally made the move and imported my past content with some help (link to friendly import script creator to come, I have to find it again). Things look a little generic right now, but I'll be adding to it as we go along. I have also attempted to integrate the feed with FeedBurner as best as I can for now. There were many suggestions of how to do it. Some involved hacking node.module which, while easy, is hacking the core of Drupal and not something I wanted to do. So what I did was add a couple of lines to my .htaccess file.

I don't claim that it is perfect, and am happy to take corrections. There's still the question of how to handle dynamically generated feeds based on taxonomy which I don't see there has been really any good answer to, but this has me content for now.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^FeedBurner.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)(index\.|rss\.)xml$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/orangehat [R]


Why did I move to Drupal?

There are a number of reasons I moved to Drupal.

• Movable Type was great when it started but it's clunky, cumbersome, and not nearly as powerful as Drupal.
• We use Drupal at work for our Intranet and documentation system and this will allow me to play around even more with it
• We just finished re-launching the Adirondack Camp website and moved it all into Drupal 4.7. There are a ton of things we want to do more with this site, so again, another reason to play around more with it.
• I'm much more comfortable with PHP than with Perl
• Drupal has an enormous community of developers and support
• It's easier to use

Those are the brief answers anyway. So expect to see lot of changes as I settle in to the new site. Enjoy.