My Movable Type woes
To speed up rebuilding on this and previous installations of Movable Type, I cut my archives in half and publish through two different blogs. #1 is the one you are looking at. #2 is 'prolific classic' (archives from 1998 - 2001), which resides at prolific.org/classic/
#1 Publishes fine, it shows the 3-column layout the way I want it, with sidebars. #2 Won't show its sidebars, whatever I do. Not on the front page, not on the archive listing and not on the entry pages. I can't figure it out and don't see any difference in the templates. Anniwun kan halp?
I've also not been able to get dynamic publishing working on more than one blog. MT won't let me publish both #1 and #2 dynamically at the same time. So now one is published static, the other dynamic.
Fixed. The problem occurred because I was publishing one blog's archives outside the root. Hmm. I'd call that a bug.
(The first one to tell me 'why don't you use wordpress' or 'why don't you just code your own' gets a punch in the nose.)
Fixed. The problem occurred because I was publishing one blog's archives outside the root. Hmm. I'd call that a bug.
(The first one to tell me 'why don't you use wordpress' or 'why don't you just code your own' gets a punch in the nose.)
When you switch both your blogs to static and republish, do your sidebars display?
I've never been a fan of dynamic publishing in MT for a lot of reasons. One of those reasons is that most plugins do not work in dynamic publishing model. Perhaps that is the case here. Switching to static mode will indicate that.
Hi Timothy, thanks for dropping in. I've tried your suggestion, but it made no difference, sidebars still don't display.
I finally figured it out. It happened because I was publishing the archives outside the root.
Ah yes, I've heard of this happening. Some web servers are configured (for security purposes) to not be able to read or write outside of the web root as you note.
Is everything else good then?
Yes, everything else is good. Slow, but I mostly blame Pair.com and my giant archives for that.
... although I haven't figured out how to let the archives show all the entries. I thought there'd be pagination, but there aren't any links at the bottom of the templates and I can't find information about it in the documentation.
Not sure what can be done to speed up your rebuilds. I'm on Pair also and haven't noticed significant lag times, but it may be related to the specific server you are on. Then again it could be something else entirely. When you say speed up rebuilding are you referring to the time it takes to publish a post or comment, to are you referring to rebuilding the whole site?
I don't recall ever seeing pagination as a feature of MT4. What you can do is create archive pages by category AND date. One problem many active and/or long running MT blogs were suffering from were huge category listings. By adding date, no category page gets too large. You can still have category pages (a good idea to keep those existing URLs active), but now you can cap those to 10 or 20 entries.
From this page on movabletype.org: http://tinyurl.com/343t8f
"Paginated archives allowing publishers to generate more page views, increase ad revenue and speed up publishing."
MT has always been dreadfully slow on taupo, the server I am on and the one I was on previously. We have another installation on another pair server (peswar) which is a lot faster - but that one doesn't have a lot of entries.
By slow rebuilding I mean anything: posting, commenting, etc.
I've just installed 4.01 and that has sped things up quite a bit, it seems.
I've found another 'bug'. When I switch off trackback, I get a "Cannot redeclare is_valid_email" php error on my dynamicly published templates.
4.01 fixed a significant database bug that impacted large weblogs (like yours) more then smaller ones so the boost you saw makes a lot of sense.
The pagination comment you pointed out seems misleading marketing copy IMHO. I hadn't noticed that before. There is nothing like the traditional pagination most would think of. There is new "pagination" features as I described in an earlier post.
Do you have background tasks switched on? (It would be found in your mt-config.cgi file. I think its LaunchBackgroundTasks.)
Ok, I'm going to give the background tasks a go and look into the new archiving stuff some more. Thanks!