Delayed Drupaling

Last month I decreed this site would move from WordPress to Drupal.

And it may yet. Someday. Just no day soon.

I love Drupal. I've built several very intriguing projects on it recently, and used it as a proof-of-concept platform for rapid development with great satisfaction. Most anything new you see me make online these days will be made in Drupal.

I also love WordPress. As a pure blog platform it is probably superior to Drupal, or at least out-of-the-box Drupal. It is so easy to administer and so inherently search-friendly that it's hard to resist for a personal site or a one-man consulting shop.

The real rub is lack of time, tools and motivation for the conversion.

WordPress-to-Drupal data converters exist out there, but they're either limited to incompatible versions of one platform or the other, or they're just a little off the mark in terms of conversion quality. That's been my experience so far, anyway, and I'd readily admit that pilot error is a likely culprit.

Even if a tool could get me 80 percent there, the conversion doesn't give me enough lift on this site to justify the investment in a new design or the tweaking and data manipulation to achieve the other 20 percent. This site is my blog, but it doesn't have to be a showcase for my Drupal skills, such as they are. It simply needs to be the place where I can say what I want about whatever I want -- mostly Internet strategy, media and product development.

I can do that now, with no changes -- except one, and don't get too excited: I put in an updated picture of myself. :-)