Thursday, November 29, 2007
I just wanted to put in a plug for Movable Type expert Mark Carey of MT-Hacks.com for his help in sorting a couple of issues here on the back end of the blog. Movable Type is a nice blogging platform, but the new version, 4.01, still has a few issues. I recommend the platform, but suggest users wait until the next update coming up next month. The platform is also going to be released with an open source version which will hopefully rejuvenate the MT community a bit.
I've used several of Mark's plugins in the past, and currently rely on his Fastsearch plugin to power searches here. Mark was kind enough to help me sort out a couple of issues, and if you need some consulting work done for MT I would highly recommend him.
Update: And let me not slight the ever-vigilant Chad Everett, another helpful and skilled programmer whose ever-useful MT-Notifier plugin powers the comment subscriptions on this site.
oh great. My hosting service just installed 4.01 on my test site. I haven't done anything with it yet - should I tell them to go back to 4.0?
No! 4.0's the beta afaik. I should have stayed with 3.34 (or .35) a little longer. Just get them to upgrade you to 4.1 when it comes out (soon -- in December I believe). Maybe you won't have any of the problems I did, anyway.
Actually, 4.0 was a release version - it's just that there were a bunch of things that needed fixing, so 4.01 came out rather quickly. All-in-all, it's a solid release, but there are still a few things that aren't quite as polished as 3.35.
If everything is good on 3.35, then there may not be a pressing need to upgrade to 4.01 right away, but if your choice is between 4.0 and 4.01, I'd *definitely* take 4.01.
That said, the issues with 4.01 aren't bad - you just need to be aware of them. Most of them have to do with larger sites and some plugin incompatibility. For your average user you won't notice the problems.