Remembering MT - R.I.P. | Lisa Sabin-Wilson

on: May/28/04 and its been viewed 863 times

Although I am having a love affair with WordPress, I still provide MT coded templates over at my template site. Hey - there may be a mass exodus from MT happening, at the moment - - but there are still enough users, for now, that there’s still a demand for them.

This morning, I built a template for a new client. I built it for use with MT. I haven’t worked in MT since I converted over to WordPress (and never will again, except for clients) - and I just have to say that the experience of working in MT this morning was painful. Yes. It. Hurt.

I kept forgetting that annoying ‘rebuild’. For every little tweak and change in a template - you gotta rebuild the whole damn thing. Which is ok, if you’re only making changes in the main template. But if you’re making changes to the individual archive entry template and have hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of archives - - well, it was painful.

I love WordPress and it’s one click editing. When I want to make a change to my template — I add the change and click “Update”. That’s it. No rebuilding. No waiting while it rebuilds ten gazzillion pages. It just changes the main template — and takes care of the archives in about .3459 seconds.

Ok, I didn’t count the seconds - but you get the picture.

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/--- 5 Responses to “Remembering MT - R.I.P.” ---/

Mind of Mog » Been Sleeping So…
7:15 pm on May 28th, 2004
[...] ng. Not like I’m doing anything fun like shopping and redecorating, or pondering her loss, that is one pain I never experienced, oh wait, Blogger ok sortof experie [...]
Madfish Willie
8:04 pm on May 28th, 2004
Lisa - check out this little gem of a bookmarklet… it will let you do edits in realtime… none of that rebuilding crap… it only works in Mozilla & Firefox/foxfire (whatever)… it’s called edit styles http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html#edit_styles
Lisa
10:53 pm on May 28th, 2004
Thanks, Madfish - I’ll give it a looksee
insignificant thoughts
4:49 am on June 1st, 2004
[...] ll people in that state should be with the two gasbags running the show over there… Lisa has a touching eulogy for irrevocable hype, the blogging system killed by [...]
Mind of Mog
10:26 am on June 6th, 2004
Been Sleeping So…
Haven’t felt like blogging much. Sure I’ll think of something. Not like I’m doing anything fun like shopping and redecorating, or pondering her loss, that is one pain I never experienced, oh wait, Blogger - ok sortof experienced. So to fill the void…

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