About.com switches from MT to WordPress

by Duncan Riley

Big news for WordPress fans, according to Matt Mullenweg About.com has started dumping MovableType in favor of WordPress.

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  1. By Paul Short posted on December 9, 2005 at 3:16 am
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    Sorry about this being a bit off topic Duncan, but how did you manage to get YPN ads on your site?

  2. By John Evans (SYNTAGMA) posted on December 9, 2005 at 4:55 am
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    Great coup for Matt. First Scoble now the New York Times group. Maybe he’ll make a bit of money now. Richly deserved.

  3. By sajjad posted on December 10, 2005 at 3:32 am
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    Dear Sir arent you going to start introducing other weblogs in other languages for example may blog is both in english and persian you may have a look if you desire

  4. By Steve posted on December 10, 2005 at 6:06 pm
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    I did the same.