tips and tricks for movable type
notice anything different?
October 01, 2002
Yes, things have changed a little around here. I don't feel like being long-winded, so here are the two key things you should know:
1) All file extensions have been changed to .php - update your bookmarks, please. Right now the old links redirect to the new links, but that won't stay around forever!
2) Individual Entry pages have been renamed in a bigger way - using the Entry Title instead of the Entry ID. Yes, some of them are incredibly long (I'll try to keep the titles shorter in the future), but I didn't want to have to generate more redirect pages if I ever have to export/import again. (God, please - NO!!)
Other than that, I now have new toys to play with, thanks to my move to Blogomania. My MT database is MySQL supported, I have PHP, and I can be a true Trackback participant - among many other joys I'm sure to discover.
Now if I can only recover all the energy I used up during the transition! :yawn:
Comments
Yay! Welcome back to the world of the living ;) I'm glad you finally made it through all that importing!! :)
what happens if you have dupicate titles on entries? I know I do that.
If you're going to have duplicate titles, you'll need to come up with something unique to append to the file name. One thing I considered was <MTEntryDate> and formatting it to include the time too if I thought I'd have duplicate titles on the same day.
As the blog grows, I may very well have to do something more specific - the more entries I have, the less my memory is going to save me when assigning titles.
I also have named my files by their entry titles instead of IDs. But I noticed yours had underscores where there were spaces. How do you do that?
Add the dirify attribute to your MTEntryTitle tag:
<MTEntryTitle dirify="1">
Thanks so much! It's all fixed now. :)
How do I get my old entries from the old server to get them to the new server and changed?
I want to do this using the phpadmin? is that what you used?