How should a blog be structured to easily extract its data?
How should a blog be structured to easily extract its data? I'm currently using Wordpress to run my website. However, with each new release I become more concerned with software bloat and the convoluted table structures used to store my data. Maybe this is a fruitless pursuit. Features are always added to blogging software until it claims to be a CMS - and at that point your data is probably stuck. 4 Answers You do have the option of sticking with the 2.0 branch. This will be maintained with just bug fixes until 2010. I also sometimes worry about the large changes WordPress undergoes. However, since all the important data (the posts themselves and the comments) are stored in a database, it does not seem difficult to extract them in case of need (moving to a different system, or just backup). Even if the table structure gets more complex, the MySQL DB WordPress uses is easy to access and extract data from. I'm sure that it is easy to find such extractors freely floating ...