Well, at least that shouldn’t ever be that hard ever again. I’m sure most of it was my fault.. and if this is all running properly at this point, then it is all much more than worth the trouble, anyway.
This marks my first experience with Textpattern, installed on the new Textdrive, both of which I intend to be utilizing a whole lot in the next few months/years. A note of great appreciation for the recent (and continuing, please! I’m counting on you guys) help from members of the Textdrive Forum, with a particular note of thanks to Damelon who walked me through the final stretch of this first set up (where there was blankness, now there is Textness).
Some important hurdles passed, and now only all the rest ahead. I’ll be around. :)
(and here’s an explanation of that first post: lipsum)
p.s. hosting is good. ;)
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it looks like rasasayang/this site is going to be moving.. in just about every way…
the present plan is to:
btw, hosting is good. ;) ;)
just a brief…:
i think a heck of a lot> has been said about the new MT 3.0 that finally came out.. i’ll just note very briefly (very very summarized), that i think Movable Type has certainly earned the right to quite much money from its users. i also think Six Apart did a terrible job of presenting MT 3.0 and the pricing scheme, and people are mostly rightfully upset about it. but everyone’s already said all this.
moving right along… i’m not completely horrified at MT.. but i am a bit disappointed…i’d really been looking forward to something a little new and useable in 3.0. so, as i’d considered before, wordpress is a reasonable CMS to turn to.. and so is textpattern. i’ve read a number of things about each, but i’m not really keeping straight in my head which does what, exactly.. i do know, though, that each has its advantages. i expect to get to know each (and continue to learn movabletype a bit better, still) and appreciate them a all a bit… and then i’ll choose my favorite and tell the world why it’s decidedly the best. (maybe) so that’s said. i’m moving from movabletype, but staying as well. that is basically what i had to say.
out to dinnertime for me…
i’m still considering getting an additional web host, on top of my current ICDSoft and my new TextDrive accounts. why? cuz i’m like that. and .. <strong>shrug</strong> stuff. but i’ll give it a few more days to mull over.. (been waiting this long…this has been considered for past several weeks… the TextDrive account was a sudden purchase, due to the compelling VC200 offer. now, though, the mass/reseller domain account issue is increasingly pressing… ‘wish there was someone i could trust with the answers…
i’m being urged to open this site up, finished or not. that’s a pretty good reason, for me, to get it together (or throw it together, as perhaps is more the case) and let this go as a rough draft, at least, in the nearer future than i might have planned for. planned? eh.. not so much. no plans, really. just an inclination and intention to work on this site and to open it up, and to keep working on it. no deadlines necessary for any of that. so it’ll open up, very incomplete.. i prolly won’t have implemented the heavy css into it, but i swear i’ll replace the tables someday… i just don’t yet really know how, and despite the innumerable tutorials online on the subject, i am definitely currently more comfortable with my trusty tables. right now, must repair some of the more obvious spots that scream, “Caution: Construction in Progress. Please remain calm, and have patience with me.”
Why must The Practice be on so very late? so past my bedtime.
A final post to Ask Brad for the night:
It’s me again. Yes, I figured out the straightforward answer. Good for me not knowing what I’m doing and not being familiar with all the MT tags to begin with—such as MTCategoryLabel. *chagrined* I apologize for taking up your time. My Archive File Template now reads and works properly as
<MTIfEmpty var=“CategoryLabel”>unslated.html</MTIfEmpty><MTCategoryLabel dirify=“1”>.html
Now I’ll just be trying to figure out ways to also tackle this whole overly-long-MT-rebuild-time issue that everyone’s been up in arms about long before I ever knew what Movable Type was…
*phew!!!* and goodnight.
~1:06am
goodnight
UGH. i broke my site. (accidentally deleted all my archive file templates. disgusting.) <strong>aggravatedly trying to fix it</strong>
okay. in the process of trying to fix it, i’ve implemented Brad Choate’s MTIfEmpty plugin, and also the Regex plugin on which the aforementioned is dependent. so that’s nice for my empty categories issue.
but i’m still suffering a very nasty:
Renaming tempfile
’.../archives/.new’ failed: Renaming ’.../archives/.new’ to ’.../archives/’ failed: Not a directory
horrors.
... why the $#&*( isn’t a) it okay to have entries with unassigned categories?, b) there a way to assign all entries an “unassigned” category?
this is painful.
so… i posted this matter to ‘Ask Brad’:
Okay. My question/issue/consternation is with Movable Type categories. What if I’d like to assign all unassigned categories a particular name anyway? Or, even better perhaps, what if I could assign all unassigned entries a category like “unfiled”? So I could make a new category named “unfiled” and either a) default all new entries to be categorized under “unfiled” unless a different category is specified, or b) have Movable Type figure out to assign all unassigned entries to the “unfiled” category.
Did that make sense?
How would I do some/any of these things?
I would think this would be floating out there somewhere on the web, but I seem to be using the wrong search terms, then, as I have been unsuccessful in this matter. Your advice would be very much appreciated.
now, back to trying to fix the stupid ’.new’ category template error. i know i’ll get this eventually…
...well, i’ve gone ahead and sent another post to Brad…
This question is sort of related to the other one I just posted, I think.. but is actually a problem I am having rather than a technique or feature that I’m interested in. First off, I’ll just go ahead and admit that I accidentally deleted my archive pages, thereby breaking my entire site. i was able to put them back, but I had never really understood the Archive File Template configuration to begin with… so I had to try to recreate that properly. I think i have it, for all but the Category Archive, which is not working whatsoever. Here’s the best I can figure it, for what I want:
.html.html
Regardless of whether or not I’ve done it correctly, does that make sense to you? Can you tell what I’m trying to do? Anyway, whether that way would work or not, my big problem is that my site is now quite broken still, in regard specifically to category archives. It also is impeding my ability to post a new entry. This is the error:
Renaming tempfile
’.../archives/.new’ failed: Renaming ’.../archives/.new’ to ’.../archives/’ failed: Not a directory
I have run a fairly extensive search online and the suggestions I have found are basically:
- underscoring my category titles (boo. dirify should take care of that, shouldn’t it? i did try this though.. it didn’t fix it.),
- halting MT’s traditional practice of creating temp files in the rebuilding process (I hesitate to do this.. besides not being sure how to do it, I’m pretty sure there was a good reason this feature was there in the first place)
What do I have to do? sad and frustrated :-/
<strong>here's hoping</strong>
:cont’d at ‘Now I can sleep.’...
well, here’s a subject of popular discussion about Movable Type: slow, lagging, unhappy rebuild times. okay, so… i’ve looked into the matter a little bit (ie searched google for other people’s blog entries referring to this problem. by the way.. i don’t think i really noticed it as a problem until i read everyone’s unhappinesses with it. and now that i notice it, and have timed it, it does seem pretty bad, with potential to get pretty worse…)
the time of writing this comes right after i (yesterday) learned of the magic that is MTInclude. it’s happy. so i implemented it quickly in a few spots on this site… and the truth is i don’t know if that suddenly jacked up my rebuild time. all i know is that i finally timed it today, and the final stopwatch count for rebuilding all my MT files comes to anywhere between (i timed it 6 or 7 times..): 1 minute and 05 seconds to 1 minute and 40 seconds. and i understand it will only get worse with each new entry added to the archive. okay, so there are a couple solutions i’ve read about, that i will, right now, implement:
i came across a striking entry that suggested the symptoms of “MovableType-itis” might be eased by killing the ’$’ signs in one’s MT tags. well. first of all, to show you how dedicated i am to reading instructions, i’d been wondering for a while now why sometimes MT tags were written and sometimes <$MTEntryBody$>. it turns out, as noted in the Movable Type Manual (would you like at that—it’s right there, first thing, at the very top. heh)—turns out that those $ characters are totally optional. humph. well then, away they go. and let’s check the rebuild time now…
...i broke my site.
rebuild times and other attempted efficiencies will have to wait. right now it’s just improvement that i’m able to post new entries again.
‘finally got my movable type calendar running the way i want.. thanks to these instructions and code at blogstyles, it looks the same as before, exept now has much better ‘hover’ styling (the way i wanted it to begin with) and of course has the necessary ‘today’ reognition, to highlight today’s date. so that’s my first bout with php… and i still have never written any php code yet. but i see that’s going to have to change. now i’ve just got to make it work on the archive and other entries pages… my first go at it last night was unsuccessful (it looked alright, but showed only the current month, no matter how i tried to navigate). i’m sure it should be 5-10 minutes of figuring out later. but later.
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