I've been a Joomla user for several years and have been relatively happy with it, but am now looking to expand what I'm doing with my site and change a few things. I realize I should probably just install MT and test drive it, but I'd like your thoughts on the feasibility of designing and maintaining this kind of site over time.

What I currently do isn't blogging. My site: - static front page with some intro content/images, PHP includes, script to place a PHPList subscription form, a random banner (70 of my photos formatted as site banners), top and bottom menu and footer with some links to static pages - photo gallery powered by Gallery2 and bridged into Joomla - section of travel writing, originally done in bloging format, but many before blog times. A single aggregate story from a trip may have several entries (AKA a post every few days) or a single long entry. Some stories are big (30k+ words), spanning 10 large pages (with suckerfish table of contents menus). Photos in the stories are thumbnails linking to Gallery2 pages, placed by a TinyMCE addon that lets me insert directly from my Gallery2 content. There's also lots of CSS formatting that lends a newspaper/magazine style to it. Stories also have a PHP include that attaches an AddThis sharing button. - extras page of various things I want to share (a blog-style list of a dozen individual items) - customized contact form

Where MT comes in is that I'd like to expand my site to include a photoblog of my most recent work. I'm not particularly interested in the comment features of a blog, but I could take it and possibly shut it off. I don't really want comments on the stories though, but I could live with it.

Problems/hurdles: For the most part, everything is working and I'm reluctant to change for change's sake. But Joomla isn't playing nice with large content items and I don't want to split up articles into several parts. Further, Joomla's SEF addons don't allow SEF generation for my Gallery2 content, and I've seen at least one MT/G2 site where it's working.

I've spent a ton of time making my own code changes and highly customized Joomla and Gallery2 templates, which I'd like to keep (generally), but I don't see the kind of template options (maybe I'm looking in the wrong places?) that are available for Joomla/Wordpress and the like.

So, what to do? I'm not really after a blogging site, just a site that happens to have a blog. Is MT the platform to use? Are MTs benefits worth the time investment to learn/convert/customize, or should I stick with Joomla?

I'm eager to hear your thoughts. Thanks very much for reading.

Matt

I would want this to display a page similar to backup/restore which shows the systems progress and some debugging information about what is happening during the update. I especially want to see if there is an error.

Much like on this site.

* Upgrading database from version 4.0026.
* Upgrading table for Entry records...
* Upgrading table for User records...
* Upgrading table for Permission records...
* Upgrading table for Object Score records...
* Upgrading table for Entry records...
* Upgrading table for Session records...
* Upgrading table for Template records...
* Upgrading table for fileinfo records...
* Creating new template: 'Commenter Notify'.
* Creating new template: 'New Ping'.
* Creating new template: 'Comment throttle'.
* Creating new template: 'Commenter Confirm'.
* Creating new template: 'Password Recovery'.
* Creating new template: 'New Comment'.
* Creating new template: 'Subscribe Verify'.
* Creating new template: 'Mail Footer'.
* Creating new template: 'Entry Notify'.
* Assigning blog template set... (100%)
* Moving OpenID usernames to external_id fields... (100%)
* Adding new feature widget to dashboard... (100%)
* Assigning blog page layout... (100%)

It stalls at "Assigning blog page layout... (100%)" and never completes. Does anyone know what is going on?

I get an error checking out from SVN

Running XP/SP2 with Tortoise SVN:

TortoiseSVN 1.5.0, Build 13316 - 32 Bit , 2008/06/21 07:55:29 Subversion 1.5.0, apr 1.2.12 apr-utils 1.2.12 berkeley db 4.4.20 neon 0.28.2 OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 zlib 1.2.3

over the past few day whenever I try to checkout (http://code.sixapart.com/svn/movabletype/branches/release-41) I get the following:

I can view the revision log with success before checkout.

REPORT of '/svn/movabletype/!svn/vcc/default': 200 OK (http://code.sixapart.com)

I always seem to get about 8.3 MB and it seems to hang at the same point, I am able o checkout without errors from http://code.sixapart.com/svn/mtplugins/trunk/

so I am stumped, it's not a major issue as the nightlies are available etc but it is driving me NUTS

I can't find documentation about "How to set a language in MT".

My instance is in English, version is 3.31 and i want to create weblogs in French, Italian and Swedish. I know how to set the date format but still can't find the button (or the pearls files to set) to set my blog in one of these language.

Does anyone knows about how to set a langue in MT 3.31 ?

Help would be greatly appreciate !

Best regards,

Mine has just stopped doing anything, it initially got the full set of achivements and was working for a while but has now stopped.

I am guessing it's down to Steam changing the layout/content of their pages, but wondering if anyone has found a fix yet?

Or would anyone be interested if I spent the time fixing the steam class?

Specifically, I would like to add the Website Name, after Website URL in the registration form. Then on entries, I would like the entry to say, Posted by Carole of Carole's Kitchen, with Carole linked to the user's profile (as is now) and Carole's Kitchen linked to her website's URL.

Right now when someone leaves a comment, there is a little MT icon that is linked to the commenter's URL.

Question is how to create a field on the registration the data content of which can be used in the manner described.

I've added the following code to the Registration template in the System Overview:

<mtapp:setting
    id="website-name"
    label="Website Name"
    label_class="top-label"
    hint="The name of your website. (Optional)">
    <input name="website-name" id="website-name" class="ti" value="<$mt:Var name="website-name" escape="html"$>" />
</mt:App:Setting>

but I'm pretty sure that's not enough to do the trick. Ideas?

Specifically, I would like to add the Website Name, after Website URL in the registration form. Then on entries, I would like the entry to say, Posted by Carole of Carole's Kitchen, with Carole linked to the user's profile (as is now) and Carole's Kitchen linked to her website's URL.

Right now when someone leaves a comment, there is a little MT icon that is linked to the commenter's URL.

Question is how to create a field on the registration the data content of which can be used in the manner described.

I've added the following code to the Registration template in the System Overview:

<mtapp:setting
    id="website-name"
    label="Website Name"
    label_class="top-label"
    hint="The name of your website. (Optional)">
    <input name="website-name" id="website-name" class="ti" value="<$mt:Var name="website-name" escape="html"$>" />
</mt:App:Setting>

but I'm pretty sure that's not enough to do the trick. Ideas?

I tried to create such a widget, following the structure of Recent Comments, Recent Entries, and Recent Assets, but it doesn't work.

There doesn't seem to be block container tags to show the first and and last of the list, like CommentsHeader or CommentsFooter.

This is way more useful than a list of recent assets.

Way to do?

Restoring Movable Type

Uploaded file was backed up from Movable Type but the different schema version (4.0036) from the one in this system (4.0066). It is not safe to restore the file to this version of Movable Type. at lib/MT/BackupRestore/BackupFileHandler.pm line 56. at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/LibXML/SAX.pm line 64 at lib/MT/BackupRestore.pm line 364

========

An error occurred during the restore process: Uploaded file was backed up from Movable Type but the different schema version (4.0036) from the one in this system (4.0066). It is not safe to restore the file to this version of Movable Type. at lib/MT/BackupRestore/BackupFileHandler.pm line 56. at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/LibXML/SAX.pm line 64 at lib/MT/BackupRestore.pm line 364 Please check activity log for more details.

====

It seems that something from both of MT4.2 and hosting side should be reconfigured. Any idea to fix this problem?

I have no idea what I touched or where, but every blog on my site suddenly and simultaneously is unable to publish permalinks and archive pages. Every blog has the same symptom: on the publishing settings page, the "preferred archive" no longer has a drop-down box with choices. It now says, "No archives are active."

Every existing blog now has this problem, regardless of when it was last updated. However, if I created a new blog, it does not have this problem.

Does anyone have any ideas of how to "re-activate" the archives?

(I'm using version 4.2RC3)

I'm having no luck with modules and SSI. The blog I am working on has PHP SSI set up and I've tried alternating between using module cache and not, but the modules don't republish unless I publish the templates they are included in. I've checked the files via FTP and they are not updating when I save them but the main templates do have the php include code.

I understand that there is a difference between saving and publishing, but with no way of publishing the updated modules alone then the whole use of SSI seems completely pointless.

One example of how I am using it:

I have a global header module that has navigation in it. If I decide to add a new link then I would like to update one template, rebuild that and not have to rebuild every single page/entry/archive/index.

Am I missing something or misunderstanding the concept?

This can't possibly be a problem with the cron job, can it? What else could be happening??

A good database schema documentation to move content, settings etc. manually, would also be much desirable, but so far, I missed any of it (being still a newbie :/).

TIA!