So, in continuing to stamp on occasional fires in my blogs, Dave N. noticed that one of the WIST quotes [1] we were discussing yesterday was missing.
Odd.
Poked around a bit more. One that I’d entered in on the same page yesterday was missing from the author (category) archive, too.
After much poking [2] and prodding [3], I discovered that:
- Any quote (entry) with a citation (title) that started with a quotation mark was vanishing.
- I was only seeing ten entries the page, regardless.
- If I took out the sort-by-title parameter, I still got only ten, but a different ten.
Aha.
Turns out that one of the few significant changes in MT4 was the whole archiving stuff. Some of the results:
- If you don’t specify otherwise, an archive (e.g., a category archive) will only show the default “show N entries” value for the blog. Which, in my case, was 10. When I changed it to 1000, all the quotes showed up, huzzah.
- The old pagination stuff I had previously didn’t get brought over — so my loooooong archives in my regular blog are not paginated. That’s something I need to fix in the future by using MT’s new built-in pagination power. (See: swapping out for all new templates again.)
- But the problems I was having with my date (monthly) archives not working has magically been fixed, as has the problem that was in there with the Previous/Next entries at the top. So that’s a win.
And so it goes.
Now, all I need is like two unoccupied days when I can replace the templates and get them cleaned up and looking the way I want, and I’ll be in great shape. I just don’t think that’s going to happen this month. 😛
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