Back on Movable Type

I’m back on Movable Type again. I consider my four months of Textpattern an interesting experience, but I ultimately realized that Txp isn’t mature enough yet.

The main gripe is that there are no conditional operators in templates. That made it hard to do what I wanted without having to write a plugin for it.

MT, on the other hand, also requires a bunch of plugins before it pleases me. So far I’ve installed Textile 2, Regex, Gravatar and Close Comments.

There’s one final plugin whose name I can’t remember that added some basic condional functions, so you could have proper grammar in the template so it generates “no comments,” “1 comment” or “2 comments.” Does anyone know what plugin that was?

Now I’ll start writing a quick hack to export my Txp entries and import them to MT.

Update: Thanks to Kartooner who pointed me to Numbers! Not the same plugin I was thinking of, but this one is even better. Check it out.

4 Comments

4 Responses

  1. kartooner says:

    Johan, actually I think it was the Numbers plug-in for Movabletype.

  2. kartooner says:

    Also, I just recently installed Movabletype on my server — for the upteenth time and it’s now being used for my daughter’s (7 months) baby blog:

    http://www.kartooner.com/zoe

    I modified the default template, and incorporated a script that displays her age at the time of the post.

  3. Mari Igawa says:

    Johan,

    Have you ever lived in Brighton, England?
    are you the one?

  4. Nope, never been to England. No relations to any Matrix characters either.

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