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Few days ago, I questioned myself: upgrading to Movable Type 4 or not. Today, I come to a decision: upgrade my blog to Movable Type 4. I jumped from MT 3.35 to MT 4 without problems. The upgrade process run smoothly. Some initial findings after upgrading:
- For the public template output, I need no additional plugins. In my previous installation, I have some plugins helped me produce outputs I wanted like combined entries. In MT 4, I do not need any plugins to do it. Great!
- All template tags work without any issue. I made some changes on the way I use template tags. It does not mean that the old template tags could not work together with MT 4, but it is more about using more effective template tags.
- I really love the new interface. To make my MT dashboard more interactive, I installed some plugins. They are: FeedburnerWidget and GoogleAnalyticsWidget by Apperceptive. Using these plugins, I can see some useful information without logging in to Feedburner and Google Analytics web interface to check some statistics. They’re all there.
- I want my dashboard display shortcuts to some pages for each blog in the system. My Blogs plugins by Arvind Satyanarayan did job very well.
I also made some changes on the design. Well, actually, I just modified my previous stylesheet and added some more blocks in the sidebar. I want to share some other information about the upgrade process but I think I’d better write them in separate posts.
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This entry receives 3 comments.
kus
ah plin plan .. katanya gak mau sekarang mau, padahal aku sudah berharap kamu ndak bakal UPGrade dan pindah ke TxP.
Tapi yah selamat lah.
Sep 2, 2007 at 2:00 pm
avianto
Great. Nice layout too. And thanks for the info about plugins, I’ll put them on mine too.
Sep 2, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Thomas Arie
Kusaeni, memang pertamanya rencana upgrade saya tunda karena ada beberapa plugin yang tidak bisa dijalankan di MT4. Padahal, plugin tersebut cukup penting untuk pengaturan blog ini.
Tapi ternyata, tanpa plugin tersebut semua tetap bisa jalan dan sesuai dengan yang saya harapkan. Jadilah upgrade ini…
Avianto, thank you! And sure, you’re MT4 user too, right? :)
Sep 3, 2007 at 2:30 am