If you’ve been paying attention you’ll know that I was having issues with my Movable Type installation regarding logging in and staying that way not too long ago. Well in the process of fixing the issue, which turned out to be real simple and easy to fix, I decided to go ahead and update my version from 4.2 to 4.261. Doing so added some more things like captcha to the comments and more recognized (like AIM and so forth) user names. So when you leave a comment if the email address you use is associated with say WordPress, it’s going to show the little WordPress logo. I know, cool.
So upgrading not only helped prevent pain in the arse spam comments it also helps recognize where people are coming from. Which is nice because I like to know where people have their blogs. Sometimes I’m particular about that. It still keeps your email address hidden away so you don’t have to worry about someone mining your info from here.
Another program I’ve grown to love over the years is Core FTP LE because it is the only FTP program that I have found that will upload the complete installation of Movable Type without once kicking me off the server. I used to think it was the host server saying ‘what the fuck are you doing!?’ and booting me. But from the last two times I wasn’t kicked off. I’m not even uploading the entire installation at once. I’m a little anal and I do one folder at a time and make sure the file sizes match. Getting booted during the upload of a file that’s over 100K is not only annoying but frustrating as well. The file may end up corrupted and you have to reupload it. The file may get skipped and you won’t realize it until something doesn’t work. I haven’t had any problems since using CoreFTP.
So I am officially using Movable Type 4.3 and you can get it here. If you’re interested in testing out CoreFTP you can get it here. No need to tell them I sent you I simply love their programs and have no issue promoting them. Laters.
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