{"id":10743,"date":"2007-07-07T17:38:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T00:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/07\/07\/mt-promises-3.html"},"modified":"2007-07-07T17:38:51","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T00:38:51","slug":"mt_promises_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/07\/mt_promises_3.html","title":{"rendered":"MT Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 60px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/mt4.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/mt4.html\" target=\"_blank\">the initial flurry of announcements on MT4<\/a>, I&#8217;ve not been tracking news about it.&nbsp; Les pinged me to see if I knew something about it, and turned me on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/2007\/06\/list_are_great_demos_are_bette.html\" target=\"_blank\">this very cool demo video<\/a> on something as prosaic as template editing.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. 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Word.<\/p>\n<p>I so want this product.&nbsp; It is my new hero.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Tag coloring and highlighting.<\/li>\n<li> Line numbers (to match to errors).<\/li>\n<li> Automatic listing of included modules.<\/li>\n<li> Vastly increased modularization of the main templates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just for template editing.<\/p>\n<p>This latter piece is important, because that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done with my own templates over the years.&nbsp; Indeed, my templates are still largely of the MT2 era, but cut and pasted and mutated so much that troubleshooting them is nigh impossible.&nbsp; I&#8217;m actually looking forward to MT4 so I can just start the templates and styles&nbsp;from scratch again for my blog.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I have any time to work on it right now, mind you &#8230; and I don&#8217;t necessarily plan on cutting over immediately upon release (never use something numbered n.0).&nbsp; But I do hope they get the product released soon.&nbsp; I&#8217;m in love &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:&nbsp; The list of videos to date is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/screencasts\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the initial flurry of announcements on MT4, I&#8217;ve not been tracking news about it.&nbsp; Les pinged me to see if I knew something about it, and turned me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11897,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/05\/installing_movable_type_4.html","url_meta":{"origin":10743,"position":0},"title":"Installing Movable Type 4","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-Jan-08 8:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm going to use this post to keep track of my MT4 installation.\u00a0 The good folks at Hosting Matters (who are probably sick and tired of my site sucking...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10869,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/mt4.html","url_meta":{"origin":10743,"position":1},"title":"MT4","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Jun-07 5:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow, I go off on a little business trip and miss all the foofoorah over Movable Type 4.\u00a0 Aside from being what sounds like a big rewrite with lots...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/mt4.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11898,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/05\/testing_ecto.html","url_meta":{"origin":10743,"position":2},"title":"Testing Ecto","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-Jan-08 4:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It looks like Ecto should work with MT4, but let me check. 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