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< Jeff Walsh wrote today about | Main | Microsoft and Apple Keep Up Their Dance >I've joined the Movable Type club. I installed MT a few weeks ago to launch an AirPort wireless Web log and found it to be a breeze to install. I already had MySQL running, so it was trivial to have it use that database system. Setting up the entire thing went so well that I helped my office Jeff Carlson by spawning a new blog under the same setup.
I've been reading the documentation for a couple of weeks about exporting Greymatter blogs in a way that Movable Type could import them, and wasn't sure if I was ready for the move. But I like MT so much that I had to take the leap. I shouldn't have feared it.
It took about five minutes to reformat the templates in Greymatter into a fashion that Movable Type could import. The import operation took a few tries as I wasn't setting all the permissions correctly, and I had to reset some of my Apache Web server configurations.
Now I'm set up. All the old comments migrated. All the archives created themselves. Nifty.
Posted by Glennf at February 23, 2003 8:44 PM
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Excellent! However, the resulting XML has a couple of glitches, which prevents it from being parsed by the likes of NNW or IE 5. Consult the RSS Validator.
In addition to index.rdf, MT is also generating a second RSS (v .91) feed at index.xml (which uses MTExcerpt). You may want to nix one feed or the other -- NNW apparently looks for index.xml before it looks for a link-rel tag.
jiggery-pokery jiggery-pokery jiggery-pokery...
Posted by: Nat Irons at February 26, 2003 5:11 PM
Finally got it. Look at index.rdf!
Posted by: Glenn Fleishman at February 26, 2003 4:34 PM
That last comment seems to have been swallowed up, perhaps by an MT tag the comments engine tried to parse.
When you click on the Templates button along the left-side blog management toolbar, you should be confronted by a table of various output files including your main index, a "master archive index", a stylesheet, and at least one RSS index.
The filename for the latter will be index.rdf -- that's the file your main page currently points to with an "application/rss+xml" link-rel, and the one that'll get discovered when you point a client like NetNewsWire at blog.glennf.com. It's that template in which you want to strike the reference to MTExcerpt, and replace it with MTEntryBody (plus the xml_encode argument).
Hooray for MT jiggery-pokery! The current layout looks lovely.
Posted by: Nat Irons at February 26, 2003 4:13 PM
I can't seem to find the reference. There's this (deleted cuz MT didn't like it)
Posted by: Glenn Fleishman at February 26, 2003 3:22 PM
I rebuilt everything and checked the post-rebuild HTML.
Doublecheck "/index.rdf". MT calls it the "RSS 1.0 index" by default.
Posted by: Nat Irons at February 26, 2003 3:10 PM
I rebuilt everything and checked the post-rebuild HTML.
Posted by: Glenn Fleishman at February 26, 2003 1:37 PM
Nifty -- thanks! I fixed it.
Hmm, paragraphs still look smooshed from here. Did you rebuild indexes after making the change? (I would think that subsequent postings would automatically update based on the current template, but I could be wrong.)
Posted by: Nat Irons at February 26, 2003 12:36 PM
Hey Glenn,
Welcome to the MT club!
I think that Jason over at Queso has a script that will move your entries over to the MT format from Manila.
JFYI, I don't know if you have seen your front page under IE 5.5 on Windows, but the width is greater than 1024, forcing users like me to scroll sideways to read all the text. This is a deficiency with the default MT template and stylesheet.
Posted by: Tim at February 25, 2003 11:05 PM
Nifty -- thanks! I fixed it.
Posted by: Glenn Fleishman at February 24, 2003 10:07 PM
Your new RSS feed is smooshing paragraphs together. If I remember right, MT defaults to using <$MTExcerpt$>, which includes that paragraph effect, along with the ellipsis at the end of an entry. <$MTEntryBody xml_encode="1"$>, is more readable, and still validates.
(I neglected to thank you for the dBug talk -- I had to duck out a bit before the end, but I enjoyed it, especially the extemporaneous bit during the kernel panic.)
Posted by: Nat Irons at February 24, 2003 9:57 PM
It's Manilalicious, so there is a way to move it, but I need to figure out my larger strategy first, like a good domain name whether I can get forwarding for a while, etc. I think if I have access to the corpus (or whatever they call it) someone has built a conversion script.
Posted by: Glenn Fleishman at February 24, 2003 6:59 PM
So, when does Wi-Fi News move over? Or is it too dependent on Manila?
Posted by: Dori at February 24, 2003 6:26 PM
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