Comments on: Movable Type 3.2

By: Nox

Nox — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:56:06 +0000

Multiple blogs from one install!

The earliest threads I have found in the WP forums promising this feature date all the way back to 2002 and we still don’t have it.

I need to have 2 or 3 separate blogs (blog, vlog, photoblog) all integrated on the main page of my site while still housed in their respective subdirectories as individual blogs. I hate MT and it’s antiquated Perl basis, but it’s looking like I have to use it.

By: John Hoare

John Hoare — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 03:05:51 +0000

Multiblog support, with MT-like control of author permissions across them. It’s the one thing stopping me moving over from MT to WordPress.

Also, documentation as to how to get The Loop to render the first entry on a page differently from the rest would be useful. I’ve tried and tried to work it out, and couldn’t – and nobody on the Support forums could help either.

By: Martey

Martey — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 03:17:28 +0000

Integrated support for Creative Commons licenses?

By: MadMan

MadMan — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:20:20 +0000

A user rights and levels system that normal human beings can understand. Level 1 to 10? What’s that? There’s not even a link to a help file in the interface to explain it. I’ve helped many WP users who struggled with this because they had no clue what to do.

A brighter, more cheerful interface with key errors properly highlighted (“If this file was writable, you could edit it” in italics text doesn’t suffice.)

I’ll try to put all my ideas down together at one place and post them some time.

By: Ben Eastaugh

Ben Eastaugh — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 15:39:53 +0000

Ah, ok, I getcha. Didn’t realise he meant actual static files, although perhaps I should have guessed from the context.

By: dowingba

dowingba — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 01:55:42 +0000

Ben, no that isn’t what “pages” are. Publishing static pages refers to the actual generation of real HTML files within directories on your server, as opposed to merely using database queries to generate them “on the fly” each time they are viewed, as WordPress does.

Someone like myself, who has way too much server space to play around with, I’m all for a static page option in WordPress.

By: JoÃ£o Craveiro

JoÃ£o Craveiro — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 01:54:16 +0000

“Email notification of a new post for blog readers.”
Don’t you think that spam supplies enough trash e-mail traffic?… :/ There are quite enough clients to read feeds, inclusively some e-mail clients (e.g., Thunderbird) and browsers (Firefox, soon IE 7) do it. The inverse tendency (turning some popular mail notifications into feeds, like bulletin board topic reply notifications — bbPress already approaches it, and I have myself implemented a similar system on a phpBB install) would be more interesting and would bring more benefits overall (IMHO, of course).

@Wantmoore:
as far as I knew, WordPress only had “untrusted commenters”, not “trusted commenters”.
Aren’t you refering to “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” as a trusting system? It’s just that t isn’t; even after approving one’s first comment, it will be possibly held for moderation if it contains suspicious words…
If there’s _really_ a trusting system, well.. I surely am not th only one to be glad to know more about it.

By: sandbox education

sandbox education — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:35:10 +0000

I would like to see a gallery template featured to support moblogging.
Also the ability to manage many blogs from one install.

By: Ben Eastaugh

Ben Eastaugh — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:31:09 +0000

“option for static page publishing”

Isn’t this what pages are? WP-Admin > Write > Pages

By: Julio Garcia

Julio Garcia — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 00:23:10 +0000

is there a central spot where we could list new features we would like to see? Such as the Codex or is your blog/this post the only place for now?

if it is here, for now I would like to (also) see
- Managing multiple blogs from 1 install
- search & replace
- option for static page publishing

By: Fer

Fer — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:02:48 +0000

Mmmm since I switched to WP from MT I’ve gotten more and more infatuated with WP each day, but there are two things I really miss from my old MT days:

- Managing multiple blogs from 1 install
- The MTOtherBlog plug in. If I’m running 2 or more blogs from the same database there should be a fast and easy way to show entries from one blog to another, I used to do that when my photolog and blog were both running from the same MT database and I haven’t been able to find a nice way to that in WP…

Just that, 2 cents from an Argentinian MT user who switched to WP for good

By: Craig Hartel

Craig Hartel — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:47:48 +0000

Firas wrote:

“This (search and replace) sounds like something that should be indispensible in a publishing system.”

I second that!

By: char

char — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:37:54 +0000

I would actually like to see a feature in WP that allows you to preview your theme before you implement it on your blog….something like how Blogger has you preview. I’m not great at using CSS and so on but I know a little and it helps to have that feature, for me at least. I would love to develop some plugins for WordPress I’ve been tinkering with a few ideas so hopefully I will get my first one out in the next few months.

By: wantmoore

wantmoore — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:10:20 +0000

JoÃ£o, Tom, and Richard:

We already have “trusted commenters” and we’ve had it since the original release of 1.5. Sounds like we may need a new interface though for adding email addresses to it when we feel the need rather than waiting for that person to comment. Honestly though, for me personally, that belongs in a plugin. I’d rather approve someone the first time they comment rather than have a list of 200 people’s email addresses in my database that may never comment on my site. Just my $0.02 though.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:26:33 +0000

Search and replace with wildcard strings

Trusted commenters list (not with typekey please), just an email list as stated above.

In my opinion Tiger admin is the best thing to happen to wordpress since the 1.5 upgrade and while it’s not to everyone’s taste, the one part of wordpress that felt lacking (before it) was the admin area. There are many good design ideas in Tiger admin that you ought to consider making standard, or, bundle a few admin themes with the initial download.

By: Josh Lavin

Josh Lavin — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:04:07 +0000

Email notification of a new post for blog readers. I know there is a plugin or two that does this, but Blogger apparently lets you put in one email address, which could be that of a group. Then the group software is responsible for subscriptions, removals, etc. Google Adwords is doing this very thing. I would think it could be done with pings, if someone had a service like Bloglet, but that reacted to pings instead of getting your RSS. (Push vs. Pull.)

By: jalansutera.com

jalansutera.com — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:03:04 +0000

MT Updated, but I Still Love WP

Matt wrote that the new version of Movable Type sounds very nice, and they’re doing a good job telling its story through a series of entries.
MT boasted that they have 32 favourite features in their new Movable Type 3.2. But as far as I know, most…

By: Podz

Podz — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:54:46 +0000

Tom said “some things need to be addressed.”

Tom… please…write them

By: fas

fas — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 03:43:38 +0000

Searching posts & comments should be priority.

what good is housing endless amounts of data when you cannot search through half of it, right?

love my wordpress! Thank you everyone!

By: Firas

Firas — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:06:41 +0000

This (search and replace) sounds like something that should be indispensible in a publishing system.

By: Craig Hartel

Craig Hartel — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:11:14 +0000

Tom wrote:

More Docs, getting a lot better than the old Wiki but still some things need to be addressed.

Like what, specifically?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:59:19 +0000

Ok, just been reading that list. I like the idea of trusted commenters, you just drop a bunch of email addresses from your personal address book and they can leave comments without you needing to worry about moderating them.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:56:40 +0000

1) More Docs, getting a lot better than the old Wiki but still some things need to be addressed.

2) Search, I know its a big task but it’s pretty rubbish.

By: Podz

Podz — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:21:42 +0000

Docs…..

If every person who said that wrote just one page – hell even a decent paragraph – then we would have had more docs by now.
But then if WP charged we’d have better too as the project could pay people.

There is lots still to do – please consider helping.

By: JoÃ£o Craveiro

JoÃ£o Craveiro — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:12:40 +0000

Another one (not very related, maybe, but just remembered):
Options > Reading
Syndication Feeds
For each article, show:
( ) Full text
( ) Full text until (or a better designation, like “Teaser only”)
( ) Summary (by the way, it is a little inconsistent to have this called “Summary” when in the posting windows and the tags it is refered as “excerpt”..)