Continuing on configuring and tweaking our install of Movable Type 4.0. Finally, after four years, I’ve built an ‘include’ blog, which is functioning as a blogroll mostly, but with the ability to add other items as needed. Ole Wolf’s clear and cogent instructions on how to build an ‘include’ blog were excellent.
Fairly happy with the CSS, still want to tweak the blockquote a bit, but haven’t decided exactly how. Also, adding a randomly generated photo into the header is on the list of ‘things to figure out’.
You have the option to subscribe via email to new comments (I’d seen this before, Robert Synnott built it for MT 4.0). Let us know if it doesn’t work correctly for you, or if anything doesn’t work as it should (email: swanksalot at gmail.com).
Still have to fix the dash vs. underscore bug, I’m waiting for pair.com to get back to me (holiday weekend I suppose). Years worth of links to B12 will break unless this is fixed, so now both options (blog-post-about-this and blogpostabout_that) are created for new entries.
I blew up my category archives for the most part when I changed web hosts, now we’re considering adding them back, since now MT is theoretically able to split them into smaller monthly archive bits (previously, some category archives were so massive as to take 10-20 minutes to load correctly, with no way to paginate).
I’m sure that are more changes in store - that’s half the fun of running a webzine, right?
Upgrading database from version 3.2. Removing unused template maps… Classifying entry records… (100%) Updating widget template records… Updating system search template records… Populating authored and published dates for entries… (100%) Classifying category records… (100%) Assigning user status… (100%) Populating default file template for templatemaps… (100%) Merging comment system templates… (100%) Assigning basename for categories… (100%) Migrating Nofollow plugin settings… Migrating permissions to roles… (100%) Assigning user authentication type… (100%) Migrating permission records to new structure… Migrating role records to new structure… Migrating system level permissions to new structure… Removing Dynamic Site Bootstrapper index template… Migrating any “tag” categories to new tags… (100%) Setting new entry defaults for blogs… (100%) Updating user permissions for editing tags… (100%) Updating entry week numbers… (100%) Database has been upgraded to version 4.0026. Plugin ‘Comment Subscribe’ installed successfully.
