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August 10, 2004
More MT archive upgrade problems
Thanks John for talking about my MT archive comment problem today. The suggestion to just turn off comments on those old archive pages would be grand if I hadn't already deleted the old weblog in MT 2.64 (stupid!). Don't do this! Now I can't change the configuration of those individual archive files without running some massive script over them to remove the comment code. I did just that on one entry here: Deep Green Crystals: this is a cool site and it worked fine, but is not scalable to 732 entries. I thought about importing the entries again into MT 2.64, but the app would give them all new entry numbers and generate different file names anyway which would break the Google links also.
There is a bit in MT 3.01 which says "keep backward compatible file names" which sounds promissing, but does not deliver. They simply create 001234.html file names instead of the new "friendly" file names of Cool_post_here.html. But when you import to 3.01 you get all new entry numbers as well so the files are not name compatible. What would solve all this would be an option in MT 3.0 import which says "preserve entry numbers". Then warn you when you are trying to overwrite and offer you suggestions for magaging conflicts. Then you could have mt 3.0 regenerate the same file names that google has but with the new formats.
Another annoyance is that the 2.64 and 3.0 style-sheet.css files are different with different names for tags. This means that the 2.64 archive files will render in the 3.0 index template, but when they use discontinued css tags, those show up in the post as random codes. Very distracting.
Basically, MT fix the upgrade process with archives !
Posted by Martin at August 10, 2004 6:14 PM
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