Template cruft

Remaining to be re-added to my MT 3.0 templates and install:

  • Code beautifier, which never worked 100% right anyhow. I added a simple thing to do the line-end and space conversion, which is good enough for now, but syntax coloring is a readdition for long-term.
  • Acronyms, which I'll see if I can hack back in later. Maybe. I doubt I'll miss them.
  • Quick links tying into del.icio.us. I'm not sure whether I should push them to del.icio.us or pull them from there.
  • Self-TrackBacks as entry "updates."
  • Extra comment protection. Probably not worth worrying about, eh.

Things I lost I don't think I'll add back:

  • Weather and updated weblog and AllConsuming sidebar feeds. Maybe AllConsuming will come back. Unfortunately I don't read enough for that to be an interesting feed.
  • "On this day" entries, for which I wrote the plugin so it's really a matter of it not fitting into the new scheme. Besides, all they ever did was make a couple people post old news as if it were new.

On the other hand, I'm keeping my templates in a Subversion repository. We'll see if I can't use MT's file-tying for templates to keep the templates under Subversion control even when they're on the site... but I might have to move away from Cornerhost for that.

And I do suppose I'll implement TypeKey some day. (It's much easier to get TypeKey working if you just use the MTCommentFields tag, but I'm still using my comment form code moved from 2.6.) I would sure like some other options, and we're certainly working on doing what we can to allow that under MT's hood.