Upgrade to 3.2 beta 4


Published on August 13, 2005 at 4:45 PM EST
In the Discussions category.

We’re running Movable Type 3.2 beta 4. Rather than upgrading, I did a fresh installation. It went smoothly, and the upgrade is well worth it. I think I have everything working correctly (danandsherree.com Search, danandsherree.com Notifications, and other stuff I…

We’re running Movable Type 3.2 beta 4. Rather than upgrading, I did a fresh installation. It went smoothly, and the upgrade is well worth it. I think I have everything working correctly (danandsherree.com Search, danandsherree.com Notifications, and other stuff I had customized). I haven’t updated the alternate templates yet, though.

Given all the new features, I’m a little surprised that this release is being called 3.2—it could be 3.5 or maybe even 4.0! I haven’t gotten to see the new Junk tools in action yet to say how well they work. Basename control is cool, and works, as this entry shows. I suppose I could mention all the cool new features, but it’s just easier if you try it yourself!

Update: Well, using the modifiable basename capability isn’t as easy as I’d hoped. Because I’ve been using <MTEntryTitle dirify="1" trim_to="20">.php to output the file, it doesn’t easily swap over to the basename method. Anybody know how I could switch? It seems to me I’d need to use mod_rewrite or a redirect with a regular expression, but I didn’t have any luck with it.

Update 2: Thanks to Jay’s instructions, updating the basename ended up not being too difficult! Hooray!

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By Jay Allen , written on August 13, 2005 at 5:48 PM.

See here :-)

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Why not MT 3.5? Or MT 4.0? from Movable Type Beta Weblog.
Tracked on August 13, 2005 5:51 PM

As you all know, over the course of the last few weeks, the team and I have been really, really busy getting Movable Type 3.2 into shape. Part of that job, of course, includes reading feedback that you post on…

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By Tim , written on August 25, 2005 at 4:58 PM.

So what are the chances that you’ll be updating the alternate templates now that 3.2 has released?

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By Dan Wolfgang , written on August 25, 2005 at 8:55 PM.

Very good! I’m hoping over the weekend I can get it done.

It’s worth pointing out that my list_blog.tmpl alternate template is unnecessary with 3.2. And the upload file templates will work with 3.2 as-is. Only the edit_entry.tmpl and preview_entry.tmpl files need updating.

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