I would love any pointers to a script (perl cgi, php, whatever) that will delete all entries in a Movable Type Weblog. I know I can drop the entire weblog, but I want to retain the template and setup information.
Category: Weblogs
Jack’s Exempli Gratia
Jack is now posting at Exempli Gratia. Why not leave him a comment to encourage him?
TypePad Review
introverting.nu has a TypePad Review that agrees with my experience of the product. I am having a good time working with Movable Type, but if I were starting out from scratch and didn’t need a separate web host, I would definately go with TypePad.
Zempt
Now that I have decided to go with the Movable Type application, I am taking another look at Zempt :: Multi-platform posting for Movable Type. On my visit to the website, I noticed that they have a bookmarklet that will start Zempt, similar to the Post to MT bookmarklet. Zempt also includes a spell checker.
Propagation
Despite years of hearing the term domain name propagation, it still reminds me vaguely of gardening. However, I am astonished that, a little over 24 hours after I made the request to Network Solutions, our domain name has been propagated to our little corner of the Internet.
We have had this domain name for about nine years now. When we got an internet dialup account in 1994, Jack decided that he wanted us to have a domain name. (Things were so primitive then that Jack took our desktop computer down to the ISP office so they could install the software we would need.) I thought it was a complete waste to get the stardel.com domain, but have to admit that the domain name has survived four or five different service providers over the years. I have had my stardel email address for the same length of time, which may not be a record, but is a very long time. Of course the downside is that it is on every spam list in the universe, since I was sending email before anyone even thought about protecting their email address. I can still remember my shock at the first p*rn*graphic email I received.
New Weblog
I was very pleased with TypePad. However, because we had a lot of information on our existing website, as well as my old weblog, I decided to see if I could install Movable Type, which is the software predecessor of TypePad. It took me about six hours to get it working so I could log in. This included finding my way around a new web host, copying files from our old host, and and cooking dinner. I wouldn’t recommend the experience to anyone who hadn’t had some experience with Perl and/or Unix and/or SQL.
I exported my posts to the TypePad beta, and imported them into my new weblog with no difficulty. I haven’t yet started to customize the templates and cascading style sheets, because I wanted to get the basic mechanics working first.
First Post in Five Acres in MT
This is very exciting. I wonder if I will be able to import all my entries.
Color Change
Because I am not really a black background color kid of gal, and someone was having problems with the old color scheme.
Simply Divine: Testing the Photo Album
I am using QuickPost to send a trackback (I hope) to Simply Divine, about her post on Testing the Photo Album. Trackbacks are sort of a distributed comments system and were originally specific to Movable Type, the parent product of TypePad.
Simply Divine mentioned my weblog because she knows someone else who has a German Shepherd / Rottweiler cross.
TypePad
For those who have been curious about the TypePad beta, the TypePad weblog will be describing some of the features this week:
Starting today, we’ll begin presenting some in-depth information about TypePad, including detailed descriptions of major features, additional screenshots and a number of ideas that inspired our development of the service. We’ll conclude this week with a full feature list, pricing chart and information about TypePad’s upcoming launch.