…and I have to say it was a tough ride. First off I’d like to mention to all MySQL developers that I hate their guts for setting swedish character sets and collations as default in the new MySQL 4.1 (well actually I don’t, just some tough love here guys 
). As a result some of the old articles may contain strange characters. Most of the comments are gone and my urls that are registered with google are seriously broken.
Anyways I found these Articles to be helpful with the transition:
http://www.thefactz.org/archives/62
http://spindrop.us/2006/05/19/migrating-from-drupal-47-to-wordpress
As for the reason why I switched? Drupal was at the same time too big and too small. It just doesn’t work that well as a blogging tool. It’s more of a CMS thing. Also, the Drupal API is just daunting. Good luck figuring out a quick hack for drupal on the fly.
P.s.: I spent most of the day fixing the broken links. Now I’m left with 388 mod_rewrite rules – hopefully that will be enough. Sheesh – what a mess this is. First MovableType, then Drupal and now Wordpress – all have different urls. This was some major piece of work.
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hab doch gesagt, schreib was eigenes!
Jaja ich weiß, aber das alte Zeit Problem….
Wenn man darüber nachdenkt ist es wirklich ärgerlich. Bei Blogs wird so viel standardisiert: Trackback, RSS, Atom – aber niemand macht sich die Mühe vielleicht mal einen Standard für permalinks rauszubringen. Wenn es so einen Standard geben würde könnte man unproblematisch zwischen blog software hin und her wechseln ohne das jedes mal alle in den Suchmaschinen gespeicherten links ungültig würden. Die derzeitige Situation entspricht einem “Vendor lock-in”.
I found that aswell when looking at Drupal. It is more of a CMS platform, though a great platform. I think that each solution such as Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla have the strengths and weaknesses.
I guess it depends on your wants and needs in a solution.