Unfortunately I was unable to upgrade to the latest version of LifeType successfully nor was I able to migrate the old posts into a fresh install. Perhaps if I was willing to spend several more hours at it… well, no thank you!

LifeType is a fine system, however, WordPress is very slick! It is beyond compare in usability, capability, and quality. Losing the old content was a perfect excuse to switch. Plus, software development is supported by a commercial venture, wordpress.com, ensuring long term viability and continued innovation.

I wish the folks at LifeType the best - developer support is good on the forums and the project has potential. I especially like their theme (template) engine, which uses smarty, over WordPress’s. However, on whole it just doesn’t have the polish of WordPress nor the vast community support and immense number of themes, plugins, and widgets, etc. available. It basically came down to a matter of time and capability, and WordPress gives me a lot more of that.

Well, I hope you enjoy the new setup as much as I do! It really is a pleasure to use - heck, maybe I’ll even post more frequently! Don’t worry, though, you can still find the old brah.blog at lifetype.brahblog.com (right now it’s messed up but I’ll set up the old version of LifeType with all the old content again soon).