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Back on Movable Type

Published July 30th, 2004 in General

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.

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  1. 1 kartooner Jul 30th, 2004 at 15:23

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

  2. 2 kartooner Jul 30th, 2004 at 15:25

    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. 3 Mari Igawa Sep 3rd, 2004 at 07:49

    Johan,

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

  4. 4 Johan Svensson Sep 3rd, 2004 at 08:58

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

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