Two weeks in, and WordPress is impressing me.
I’ve had minimal comment spam (although this could be attributable to the fact that I’ve been less than frequent with my updates lately) and the posting process is lightning-quick.
For a long time, I’ve been used to a several-minute pause after writing a post and hitting the “Publish” button. Movable Type would bring up a progress screen and let me know that it was saving my post and then rebuilding all of my archive pages before finally displaying a finished entry.
WordPress is just done. You hit “Publish” and that’s it. I’m pretty sure that’s because the whole thing is database driven, and only generates a page when a viewer requests one. In a way, it passes the rebuild time off to the viewer.
I suppose, if this were a much higher-trafficed site, that could be a problem…