My blog is mostly back. Various things don't work yet--no OpenID signin (sorry, LJ folks), no list of interesting links at the top right, no extra protection against spam in older entries, no access to months before 2007--but I'll fix those things in the coming days. For now, the basic journal capabilities (read entries, post comments) seem to be working, and I need to go sleep.<\/p>\n
What happened: it turns out that dynamically built MT 3.2 is incompatible with PHP 5. So I had to either switch to a statically built blog, which I wasn't willing to do, or upgrade MT. I'm still not ready to upgrade to MT 4 yet, though I'm sure I will eventually; luckily, I had previously downloaded MT 3.3 in anticipation of upgrading to it. I followed Elise Bauer's useful A Safe Way to Upgrade to MT 3.3<\/a> instructions (though those instructions are probably not complete enough for anyone who hasn't previously installed and\/or upgraded MT) (and I failed to follow her very first instruction, which starts out \"Do not attempt to do an upgrade late at night when you are about to go to sleep\"--that was a wise idea, but I really didn't want to leave my blog totally broken overnight), and then I checked her 3.3-compatible plugins<\/a> list. I also found Six Apart's official Changes to the Movable Type Platform for v3.3<\/a> page very useful, especially the Typekey authentication section and the \"Order of template tag attributes matters\" section.<\/p>\n After getting the blog itself up and running, I tried installing the new versions of MT Blogroll and the OpenID plugin, but I couldn't get either one of them to work. I'm way too sleepy now to figure out what's up with those; I'll deal with them over the next couple days.<\/p>\n I should mention that the upgrade process was, overall, pretty painless. Nice work, Six Apart! (Except for the part about not supplying upgrade instructions of your own, that is.)<\/p>\n Must go sleep now.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My blog is mostly back. Various things don’t work yet–no OpenID signin (sorry, LJ folks), no list of interesting links…<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journaling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070","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=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}