Movable Type is finally free as in Speech. In the podcast and recording below we shared the news with our ProNet community and talked about the upcoming beta of Movable Type 4.1.
My church has requested the creation of an online directory that is password protected. Our congregation has roughly 200 members. I would love to turn the online directory into more of a social networking thing for our congregation where members can post information about their lives (and I'm not sure what else, I would love to hear some more thinking on the possibilities). Our paper directory is divided by family with contact information and information about each individual family member (name, birthday, email, hobbies, etc.). The online directory would at least have to function as well as the paper directory.
Some of the (starting) questions that I'm getting stuck on are:
In last week's bi-weekly pronet conference call I gave a quick update on what was happening in MT-land and then sat down with David Recordon to talk about his work on the Open Social Graph.
I know this is kind of weird to post this here on Vox, but I didn't see this posted anywhere else and it wasn't exactly obvious for me to figure out. So, I hope this helps someone else.
Ok, so you just upgraded your Movable Type blog to MT4. You were using pretty much default MT3.x templates (especially the comments code). You're happy with how you blog looks and aren't really interested in overhauling your templates, but you would really like to make use of the new MT4 commenting features. Here's how I did it:
Create a New Blog for parts*
Remove from Head
Save & Publish
*I know you can "Refresh Templates" but I think it much cleaner to
harvest parts, especially if you only want to update the comments.