The migration to MT 4.3 last night went well! We got my blog and Georg's moved, I got my theme mostly set up and we put Georg on a default theme temporarily. I meant to do more -- work on his theme and get started on moving the Divaville Lounge site -- then I crashed around 11:30. Was suddenly so tired I had trouble finishing a sentence, and that is no frame of mind to be mucking around with code. So I went to bed.
This morning I was feeling lazy and did the Sunday crossword puzzle before my show instead of working. So it's back to it now! There is an actual work-related reason for this upgrade: MT 4.3 has some features I really want for a client site. But the beta is only in MTOS, the open source version. The client site runs on MT Pro and uses enough of the community features that I couldn't get the site to run on the 4.3 beta. Installing the beta on my own site lets me try out the features like true pagination of category lists and comments, and filtering search by author, date or category. I'm assuming the official release next week will offer both OS and Pro versions; am not mentioning these groovy new features to the client on MT Pro until I know for sure, just in case.
Now if they just build rating/voting into the core MT program, that will really make me happy. The only real option for that now is a plugin, which when I installed the plugin on the client site it made the whole site go kablooey. (thank goodness it was a test environment, not the live site!) The plugin author never responded to my request for help even though I paid for the damn thing. Judging from the comments on his site, there are a lot of people waiting for a response from him.
Speaking of migration I have been following @NPRTechTeam on Twitter as they prepare to launch a new npr.org today. They've got 50 people working on it! I hardly ever even go to npr.org and I'm still finding it absolutely fascinating. One new feature I'm excited about is an embeddable a/v player: they're adding the ability for people to embed audio from NPR stories on their own blogs or sites. That will come in handy.
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