{"id":6975,"date":"2004-06-30T08:24:44","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T13:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/06\/30\/blogging-geek-3\/"},"modified":"2004-06-30T08:24:44","modified_gmt":"2004-06-30T13:24:44","slug":"blogging-geek-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/06\/blogging-geek-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"

I updated to Movable Type 3.0d last night and it is pretty cool. I had intended
\nto change over to WordPress<\/a> which is publishing
\nsoftware totally based on PHP.
\nWordPress installed very easily and has a lot of excellent features unfortunately
\nwhen I updated the Admin password and it locked me out. Many other people had
\nthe same problems and the steps they gave did not help in my case. Another
\nreason I decided to not change to WordPress is that it works by building the
\nentry that is viewed as it is requested. This has some advantages in that it
\nwill use a minimum of web space since individual entries are not archived on
\nthe hard disk and changes made to the template are generated instantly and
\ndo not require any rebuild. The downside is that since there are not individual
\nhtml
\npages,
\nGoogle and other search engines can not find entries to link to.
\nI get a fair amount of traffic from search engines and my referral logs show
\nthat
\nsome
\ngo
\non to reading other posts.<\/p>\n

Originally when Movable Type 3.0<\/a> license agreement was first reported it
\nsaid that the free version would allow one author and one blog. They must have
\nchanged it since the free version now allows one author and three blogs. This
\nwas ideal for me since event though I only run one blog through my server I
\nmaintain
\na test blog to test out and refine any template changes before applying them
\nto the main blog. In the past I have also helped design and build the templates
\nfor other bloggers in St. Blogs, so the maximum of three blogs was fine for
\nme.<\/p>\n

MT 3.0 has greatly enhanced comments by more easily allowing you to review
\nthem. Previously you could only see the last five comments, now you can see
\nall of them. You can also turn on authentication where people would have to
\nuse a Typepad generated pin (which you only need to register once to work
\non all MT and Typepad blogs). That feature would totally block comment spam.
\nEven without authentication you can still approve\/disapprove comments. The
\noverall layout is sharp and easy to use and the added the ability to generate
\nATOM feeds in addition to RSS. In addition you can now choose to have archived
\npost file names to be year\/date and then text from the title instead of having
\na name generated like http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/archives\/004874.php.
\nI would like to change to this new format but I don’t think I want to break
\nlinks to my other posts. They have also speeded up tasks such as rebuilding
\nby assigning them as background tasks.<\/p>\n

So if you are using MT and have thought of updating I would strongly urge
\nyou to go ahead. <\/p>\n

In other geeky news I have totally gone over to using the Firefox
\nbrowser<\/a> and the latest version has a lot of feature to make it easy to transition
\nfrom Internet Explorer. This is a tabbed browser where you can have new windows
\nopen up in tabs instead of opening another window. This browser besides being
\n100% compatible with web standards is fast and easy to modify. They have extensions
\nthat easily allow you to modify
\nits behavior to your liking and to add other features. This browser is also highly
\nsecure since it doesn’t have the security holes that IE does. One of the extensions
\nis the Sage RSS reader which will read RSS\/Atom feeds and is totally integrated
\ninto the browser. When you update feeds it gives you an icon indicator of
\nwhat feeds have been updated since you last checked. So if you grabbed this browser
\nmake sure you look through the various extensions to make browsing easier and
\nmore powerful.<\/p>\n

Update: If you use the MT-Blacklist plugin and want to install MT 3.0 you must remove MT-Blacklist since it will not work with 3.0. To do this the author of this plugin says to simply delete plugins\/Blacklist.pl. Otherwise it forces comment moderation where comments must be approved prior to them being seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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