OK, so I am using the MovableType 3.2 interface, and I have already successfully posted one new entry, so that seems to be good. However, I have noticed some problems:
I've lost my Media weblog in the administration. The pages still exist, I just can't manage them.I've lost some comments. I'm not sure how many. This is something I'd like to fix because I had some good comments from folks.
The main blog's (JoKeR's Blog) index template was fixed to reflect that the version of MovableType I'm using is 3.2. That does not seem to be the case on the other blog index pages. Rebuilding does not seem to help.
UPDATE below the fold
I've found the one comment that I knew I was missing and hoped to find from Jason at Positive Liberty. I found it in an old dump and was able to recreate just that single comment.
I've merged the entries for the different blogs so that all of the entries are in my primary blog. I never wrote enough to justify so many separate pages and this will make my one blog seem a bit fuller. Plus it will be easier to manage. There may still be a few things that are not exactly right with the entries I moved, but they look pretty good to me except that the entries I moved don't have categories and I don't seem to be able to modify that. I may have to go into myPHPAdmin if I want to fix that.
Since I'm only using the primary blog now the version number of the other blogs really doesn't matter. I have left the static files generated by MT for the other blogs, but they will no longer be updated.
Looking pretty good! Now I just need to write something that someone would be interested in reading.
Posted by JoKeR at August 29, 2005 02:57 AM | TrackBackOK, so I've turned on comments here to see if they work properly. Also to see if I'm inundated with spam. This is a test of the 3.2 commenting system. Repeat, this is only a test.
Posted by: JoKeR on August 29, 2005 03:03 AMOK, I toggled the switch to say I would not accept comments. I then tried to comment. It gave me the data entry form, but after I'd submitted my comment it rejected it because of the configuration, suggesting that the commenter correct the problem, which of course they cannot because I've not allowed them to comment in the first place.
I'd rather that when I say don't accept comments any more it would simply not allow me to make any more comments. I'll have to ponder this. Maybe I could just post a last comment saying I've turned off comments, but that is not very elegant and might still be missed.
OK, so I tried to post a comment after allowing comments again, and it was rejected because I had said that commenters had to be authenticated, but it didn't seem to know how to authenticate the comments. So I changed the settings so that I no longer required authentication so that I could add comments again.
Posted by: JoKeR on August 29, 2005 03:25 AMOK, I went to an old entry which had a comment. I viewed that particular entry. It did not show me a comment. I enabled comments. I refreshed the entry display. It showed the comment. I returned to the control panel and disabled comments again. I refreshed the display of the entry again. Now it is showing the comment, but I suspect if I actually try to comment it will not allow it. This is not ideal.
Posted by: JoKeR on August 29, 2005 03:31 AM