Updated Moveableype
Thanks to a comment by dvd yesterday, I found out that Movabletype had been updated to 2.6. I backed up my entries (just in case), installed, ran the update script, and all went sweetly. There are some nice improvements, most notably support for text formatting plugins. Brad Choate has already produced one called MT-Textile, which is inspired by an online text processing service written by Dean Allen. It formats block text into paragraphs, headings and lists, does inline text formatting such as emphasis and strong, and converts difficult characters to proper HTML entities. It seems to work very nicely, barring a few minor bugs.
In order to get round one of these bugs (text remaining formatted in the auto-generated excerpts which go in the RSS feed, I have now included the whole of the entry body (but not the extended text) in the RSS feed. This is probably more sensible anyway, as it gives you a better idea what the post is about, and doesnât cut off your reading experience rudely mid-sentence.
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glad it all went smoothly and neither of us had no cause to rely on our backups! i'm currently wrestling with the ideas behind trackbacks -- i'm sure i'm missing something terribly simple here.----- [i'm pretty sure that's supposed to say '...had any cause to...'. ooops!]
by dvd @ 14/02/2003 5:02 pm • Permalink •
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...in blog's clothing yay! but she's a girl... has successfully upgraded movable type too! whilst this may look like a normal post, it
by fuddland @ 14/02/2003 5:03 pm • Permalink •
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