{"id":12149,"date":"2009-06-05T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/06\/05\/12149.html"},"modified":"2009-06-05T10:45:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T17:45:20","slug":"some-movable-type-settings-tec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/06\/05\/some-movable-type-settings-tec\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Movable Type settings (technical)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I'm poking around in some MT settings (trying to figure out why my blog doesn't get spam any more, since the MT4 upgrade, but Vardibidian's does), and I came across a couple of semi-cryptic field names in the MT database. Searching online for those field names yielded info about what they mean, but only indirectly.<\/p>\n<p>So as a public service to anyone else who may be looking for this info, I figured I would mention here what they mean. If you're not searching for MT database field names, this entry is probably irrelevant to you.<\/p>\n<p>The cryptic fields:<\/p>\n<dl>\n  <dt>blog_server_offset<\/dt>\n  <dd>Time zone offset, which explains why the numbers are negative. Note to database designers: if your field designates a time zone, please name it something like \"time zone\" or \"tz.\" Naming it \"server offset\" does not clearly indicate that it has something to do with time zones.<\/dd>\n  <dt>blog_status_default<\/dt>\n  <dd>Default publishing status for new entries: 1 for unpublished, 2 for published, 3 or maybe 4 for scheduled (I'm a little unclear on the details). Here, again, naming it something like \"blog_entry_status_default\" or \"blog_publishing_status_default\" might have made it a little easier to figure out what it refers to.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>I briefly considered documenting the rest of the fields here, too, but I think most of them have fairly self-explanatory names, especially if you compare them to the GUI controls in the MT settings pages.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m poking around in some MT settings (trying to figure out why my blog doesn&#8217;t get spam any more, since&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-databases","category-journaling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}