Movable Type
Upgraded to MT 3.2
Just updated the application running this weblog to Movable Type 3.2. Will be updating you over the next couple days over comments, thoughts, etc. The UI is quite slick, there’s a lot of polish that went into this.
Stay tuned…
Implemented MT-Keystrokes
Last night I installed MT-Keystrokes (hat tip to Erik for the pointer). It’s a simple, if clever, piece of anti-spam technology for Movable Type comments. MT-Blacklist does a good job of catching most of the comments submitted, but there are a ton of comments submitted that are queued for approval, and deleting them from the […]
Implemented sub-categories in Movable Type 3.121
Over the weekend I was doing some miscellaneous clean-up on the blog and realized that I hadn’t yet checked out one of the nice new features in Movable Type, sub-categories. This makes it easy to logically group categories, something I’d wanted to do (but not badly enough to install a plugin that existed to do […]
Upgraded to Movable Type 3.11
Nothing to see here… just upgraded to Movable Type 3.11, primarily a bug fix over 3.1. I also dug in on my problems getting MTMacro, MTAmazon and MT to play nice. Not sure why, but apparently somewhere along the line XML::Simple got nuked from my install. (If it’s alright by you, I think I’ll just […]
MTBlacklist update
Six weeks ago I installed MTBlacklist for Movable Type 3.0, and then upgraded to MT 3.1 when it was released at the end of August.
In that short period of time, MTBlacklist has stopped 5,793 comment spams from posting to my weblog. That’s one spam comment every 10 minutes of every day.
Yikes.
MT 3.1 performance improvements
Whoa. That last post published in about 1/10th the time it took to publish old posts. And that’s not even with the dynamic publishing abilities. Nice.
Upgraded to Movable Type 3.1
Things are going to be funky for a while. My upgrade went relatively smoothly, but the main reason I upgraded was to get the dynamic publishing abilities. Well, my file naming convention is using a Movable Type plugin, which it turns out may not be compatible with the way MT publishes dynamically.
So… I’ve got some […]
MT Blacklist is live for Movable Type 3.0
Not a moment too soon, Jay Allen has released an “emergency release” of MT Blacklist, the comment spam blocking plugin for Movable Type. Jay recently won the developer’s contest sponsored by Six Apart, and his victory was well-deserved. Unfortunately, a public release of his phenomenal tool wasn’t available until today for those of us […]
Photoblogging with Movable Type?
Anyone aware of an easy way to add a photoblog to Movable Type? My new cell phone arrives tomorrow, it’s got a camera built in. I’d like to experiment with setting up a family blog that will have the ability to take pictures and have them uploaded to the blog automatically. I know there are […]
Notes on Movable Type 3.0, Drupal and Word Press
Well, I don’t really care about the massive licensing debate that’s raging in the blogosphere. This is sophisticated software, and it’s worth paying for. End of story. If you want free software, try Blogger. If you want low-cost blogging software, TypePad is fine. Movable Type is a robust content management system that rivals sophisticated […]
