{"id":12676,"date":"2008-02-27T14:39:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T21:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/02\/27\/movable-type-4-interface.html"},"modified":"2008-02-27T14:39:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T21:39:31","slug":"movable_type_4_interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/movable_type_4_interface.html","title":{"rendered":"Movable Type 4 Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The neat, sleak, redesigned interface for MT4 is driving me nuts. While it looks pretty, and I’ve managed to figure out where things go, and it even has some nice features (e.g., the post preview is excellent), I find it slow, slow, slow. Everything is a javascript construct, even the input fields. If you do anything to push the systems — as I do with my 6,000-category WIST “blog” — then it goes from manageably glacial (in MT3) to nearly unusable. That’s as true the post creation side (where it takes about 30 seconds each time to generate the drop down to select categories) as it does on the category management side (where it takes forever to load, and then keeps trying to update itself periodically, all taking forever).<\/p>\n

Ugh.<\/p>\n

Oh, and the java-controlled drop-down menus are a pain in the ass, as they tend drop down on a casual mouse-over and then obscure the screen, waiting to be clicked on.<\/p>\n

Ugh.<\/p>\n

I know a big chunk of this stems from my using the system a way it’s not really designed (thousands of categories is possible, but I doubt anyone else is doing it), but it’s still a pain in the patootie, even in those cases where I do something on other than just WIST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The neat, sleak, redesigned interface for MT4 is driving me nuts. While it looks pretty, and I’ve managed to figure out where things go, and it even has some…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12386,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/back_to_ecto.html","url_meta":{"origin":12676,"position":0},"title":"Back to ecto","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-May-08 6:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"So I really wanted WLW to work. 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