{"id":2991,"date":"2005-07-08T10:28:58","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T17:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/07\/08\/2991.html"},"modified":"2005-07-08T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T17:28:58","slug":"movable-type-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/07\/08\/movable-type-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Movable Type questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi, all&#8212;Movable Type (journaling) neepery here; if you're not interested, skip this.<\/p>\n<p>I'm once again considering moving my journal to MT.  I installed the latest version a week or two ago and played around with various aspects of it (I'll post a link to my installation at some point, but it's not ready for that yet), and I still have a few questions.  I'm hoping y'all who've used it can suggest some answers.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these are probably things I could find out on my own, but I'm short on time today, so figured if some of y'all could point me to answers, that'd be great.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I really want my main page to show the last n entries rather than the last n days' worth of entries.  I haven't learned enough of MT's template language yet to know whether that's feasible.  Anyone?  You don't need to write the code for me; just let me know if it's doable.  (And if the code is out there somewhere, feel free to point me to it.)  I won't be showing full text of entries on main page; I'll either do a main page much like my current one (only prettier), with just the titles and dates, or a main page kind of like the <cite>SH<\/cite> table of contents, with titles and pull quotes (and dates).<\/li>\n<li>I also really want my main page to show the last n comments posted, the way my current one does in the sidebar.  I currently do that with some tricky MySQL code that someone provided for me.  Can I insert direct MySQL and PHP code in the MT template, bypassing their template language?  (I don't suppose their template language has last-n-comments-posted built in?)  I assume I would have to do things like make the filename extension \".php\", but that's fine with me.<\/li>\n<li>I read somewhere that with MT you can set individual old entries (or maybe all entries older than a certain age?) to have moderated comments.  I like that idea; is it true?<\/li>\n<li>Various of y'all have various anti-comment-spam solutions; do any of them not send email to the blog owner when spammers try to post?  A concern has been raised that although MT might reduce the amount of posted comment spam, it might increase the amount of comment-spam-notification email we would have to deal with.<\/li>\n<li>I was pretty sure I didn't want to go with WordPress; the main advantage people have cited of WP over MT is that WP is free (and\/or open source?) software, which doesn't make so much difference to me.  But is WP better?  I'm not sure.  I've also heard good things about blosxom.  I need to look in more detail at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymptomatic.net\/blogbreakdown.htm\">Blog Software Breakdown<\/a> chart (which is actually a comparison chart, but I keep thinking from the title that it's about blog software failing to work).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gotta run.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, all\u2014Movable Type (journaling) neepery here; if you&#8217;re not interested, skip this. I&#8217;m once again considering moving my journal to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","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=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}