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Movable Type 3.2

Following on from my last post, I decided I should finally get round to installing Movable Type 3.2. So I did. First off the upgrade script didn’t work as it couldn’t load the Javascript needed to do the upgrade. I edited my new central config file (turns out you now have to specify the static directory even if it’s the same as the cgi directory) and got it to work. But none of the functions in the control panel worked once I’d managed to log in. Schoolboy error – I’d forgotten to clean my cache of the old Javascript and CSS and it was still using the old stuff. So now everything is fixed and Movable Type 3.2 is beautiful. You won’t have noticed because it’s on all the old entries, but I’ve been getting about twenty pieces of spam a day (luckily not as obscene as in the past). 3.2 has a built-in junk feature, which will block pretty much all of it. Why didn’t I do this sooner? It took all of twenty minutes. (Answer: the same reason I don’t write twenty minute blog entries every day. You go on for five minutes, saying “I don’t have the time to do this or that”, and stay for two hours, always meaning to go off in five minutes.)

All I have to do now is upgrade my templates to be more efficient, and we’re sorted.

Matthew @ 16:20, February 20, 2006 to Geek | Comments (0)