While writing a critique of John Gruber’s misunderstanding of TrackBacks I stumbled across an article which said everything I was going to and decided to point you there instead. Gruber’s current system has many flaws, including the fact that it’s arbitrarily ordered by popularity (why?) and every referrer that isn’t a permalink is going to…
Massive changes in CVS: B2config.php gone! New Options Screens!
For anybody interested, I’m just about done with lining up the data models behind Movable Type (2.64) and WordPress (0.71) to see how the import can work. The rest of it should be just going through the motions of moving the data. There are a couple of outstanding design decisions, like what to do about…
This final beta fixes all known issues and then some. I’m running it on my own site and it’s great. Try it out and report any problems in the beta forums. Thanks!
We’re very close to our .71 release, so please try out the beta to help iron out any issues.
I just put the finishing touches on Mike’s OPML import for WordPress Links. I’ll admit that personally I hadn’t moved over to using Links yet because I have about a hundred in the Blogrolling system I didn’t want to enter all over again. Luckily they make your blogroll available in a format called OPML (here’s…
There’s a new beta up, same bat channel. This has a much cleaner include scheme that should work on restrictive hosts and avoid a lot of the problems people were having. There are a ton of other fixes here as well, so check it out.
Beta testers are needed for the .7 release.
Those of you following the CVS may have noticed the flurry of activity in the past 48 hours. A lot of things have come together quickly, and here’s just a quick update of what’s happening: We’ve ironed out a few bugs with the excerpts functionality, it’s now 100%. WordPress Links — Mike has taken his…
Excerpts seems to be working now. Includes auto-populating excerpts when none exist (e.g. for old posts). Used in the RSS/RSS2/RDF output (configurable), but could be used for on-page headlines, or as a lead paragraph, etc.