Movable Type gadgetry

No problems here upgrading Movable Type from 2.51 to 2.62. At least, so far. I removed some CDATA declarations and added the encode_xml="1" attribute to some tags in my RSS feeds, but other than that, all is well.

A+++ #1 MT2.6 feature I haven't seen mentioned yet: meaningful page titles on the editing site.

I took the opportunity to also fix my comments RSS feed, which I hadn't converted over to Adam Kalsey's SimpleComments plugin yet. After making the change was when I remembered why: SimpleComments has to be in an entry context to do its thing; if you just plunk it in one of your index templates, it'll error out, preventing the build.

Changing my feed back would be a bummer, so instead I fixed it. Gotta love open source.

I also fixed my RandomOTDEntry plugin, even though I don't think it's my bug. Looks like I'm going to hack on Radio for a bit, but hopefully later tonight I can do the entry categorizer plugin I want (the one that Kevin Shay's FilterCategories isn't). It's for the quick links box at the top of my main index page; I made a "Threads" category to use like the "Threads" sidebar I had in my Radio weblog, but I can't exclude them from the main list without such a plugin. Tsk.

One feature I would like would be less automatic TrackBack: I always find I'm accidentally sending pings somewhere I'd rather not, but I still don't want to look up, copy, and paste the TB URL manually. I'd like MT to automatically fetch the TrackBack URLs, but then prompt if it should ping them. Kinda complicated UI, but that's what I'd like.

I'm also working on a BeipMU plugin, but you probably don't care about that.

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Phil Ringnalda

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Thanks for the SimpleComments fix: I meant to do it myself, if my first inclination (beg Adam to do it for me) didn’t work out, but then I forgot about the whole thing. Which worked out for me anyway, didn’t it? Gotta love that about open source, too!

Mark

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Yeah, I had to look around quite a bit before posting it. I thought for sure someone would’ve done it by now!

David

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I’m confused about what your SimpleComments fix is supposed to fix. I can’t get SimpleComments to display an accurate number in my “Recently Commented” sidebar. It counts comments, but not trackbacks. Does this fix address this? I’ve installed it but nothing has changed, so I’m assuming not, but maybe I’m doing something wrong.

Mark

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SimpleComments doesn’t provide a special comments count tag… so… yes and no. What template code are you using to get the count?

Adam Kalsey

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Your SimpleComments fix has been rolled into a “official” SimpleComments release, along with a bunch of other new tags.