I initially had a few problems with some of my hacks because they were not playing friendly with each other. On top of it, a lot of the WP documentation is a bit "lacking" to put it diplomatically. I went on to the WP boards and IRC and to be honest was initially greeted with some unfriendly people. This was a bit of a shock after dealing with the MovableType community. I actually had to deal with one wank-stain who wanted to go on about why he thought I should vote for Bush or that I should move to France because after viewing my site, it was clear where my vote lies this year. I thought it was very inappropriate for him to go on like that in a help community. I then got some nasty emails and comments on my site. Still, my complaints about the community actually fell on ears that were listening and I have seen a 200% improvement in how newbies are treated and getting questions addressed.

My next problem was with how the design/template of WP works. To me, it wasn't all that intuitive. I finally managed to get the site to look more of how I wanted it to but it took me a few weeks of playing around with the CSS and index file to be satisfied to show it to the public. I must admit that my site does look a bit better on FireFox and Mozilla (which are resource hogs bigger than IE in my opinion) but it looks good enough on IE for me to call it a day on the design side. Also, once again with the plug-in features of WP, I was easily able to make a few extra skins for the site so people can have choices on how they want to view it and the colors used.

Now that I am for the most part *done* (I still have some tweaking that I need to do here and there), I have to say that I am pretty happy with WordPress. It is much faster than Movabletype, easier to tweak, and offers a lot more features right out of the box than MT3 does. People are really excited about this software at the moment and its on the *hot* list so a lot of people are putting time into developing it. This can only mean great things for the end-user.