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Movable Type 3.2 Installed

It was a bit more complicated than I would've liked, but it was no fault of Six Apart's, it's more my fault for having a bunch off odd-ball plugins and template hacks. That, and I accidently uploaded the files initially in binary format, which caused all sorts of trouble.

But things have been updated. I've updated the various plugins I use to their 3.2-specific versions (specifically MT Blogroll and MT Notifier). I also updated the basename of my older entries so that I can start using shorter URLs (it'll probably hurt my search engine rankings on new posts, but I really don't care all that much). But it will enable me to change titles to include something like "Updated" on the end of the title without completely bulldozing my link to the page.

I was playing with the beta on a separate site, so I knew what to expect, and I knew it would take a while to get this one fully updated/configured to my liking (with 3000+ entries and over 6500 comments, it takes a bit of time to upgrade everything). Overall, the improvements are nice (and there are a ton of them). Hopefully one of these days I'll have time to redo my templates so that they actually take advantage of some of the new tags and such, but meanwhile, we're up and running. Let me know if anybody finds any problems.

Posted by Jake on 08/28/05 @ 04:35 PM
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Aaron Wormus said on 08/29/05 @ 03:41 AM:
So the URL is tied directly into the title, that sucks! Wordpress just has another field in the db which originates from the Title, but once you have the URL, you can change the title (or the URL) to whatever you want independantly.

It was painful for me to go from MT to WP, but I haven't regretted it at all. Google was even nice enough to transfer my SERPS and PR from my old urls to the new ones, so although it was a while while I didn't have much traffic it picked up again.

Jake said on 08/29/05 @ 09:22 AM:
Easy there, Aaron ;-)

By default, the URL is tied to the title, using a basename field, but you can change it to whatever you want, or, with a few minor tweaks, use a numbering system or just have it use keywords from the entry. But, by default, in 3.2 it uses the first 15 characters of the title of the entry, and that doesn't change now no matter how many times you change the title (as it's a new field in the database). You can force it to change, but that would break links.

I almost went to WP a while back, but MT 3.2 is pretty damn sweet -- I'd encourage you to take a look at it sometime.

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