A Comparison of WordPress and Movable Type: Two Main Open Source Content Management Systems
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- February 28, 2019
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Gao, Lu
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to investigate the reasons that made WordPress a successful weblog publishing system and winning the battle against Movable Type. A detailed comparison was conducted in three main areas: Ease of Use, Programming Language, and the Ecosystem. Results indicated that the simplicity of using WordPress in terms of system installation, content management and maintenance are the top reasons that users choose WordPress instead of Movable Type. Choosing Perl as the programming language also made Movable Type difficult to use because of the long learning curve. Although Movable Type was started years before WordPress, it lacks openness as an open source system, and does not have enough support from its community. The results of this study could provide insights for open source community contributors and Content Management System (CMS) users to better maintain and use open source technologies.
- Date of publication
- March 2011
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- In Copyright
- Advisor
- Marchionini, Gary
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Extent
- 42
- Deposit record
- abb1808a-3405-4d7b-866b-f35807dc08b2
- Access right
- Open access
- Date uploaded
- March 6, 2013
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