Cool - Logged in with account I made over at “Momma’s”.

OK, smileys should be working now (forgot to copy the template), but they’ll be changing once I edit the module to use the old smileys I was using previously.

The preview template is definitely offline for the moment. I’m in the middle of working on it as I type. Should have it up soon.

Les, your terms of service are a bit harsh. No obscene language?!

What the fuck? Obviously a default template I’ve forgotten to edit. OK, that’s a low priority at the moment. I’m concentrating on the templates for right now.

Congrats!

I have the feeling that I’m trying to put square pegs in round holes over on my site, and that if I just switch it over and give up gracefully (and tweak things while I’m there) I’ll be much much happier.

Maybe.

How did the database import go?

Once I updated to the latest build it went fantastic. Smooth as silk. There’s been an update to the MT Import script that allows you to define how it handles categories a little better. MT allows for multiple category assignments with the first one you picked being the “primary” category. EE’s old import script was treating everything beyond the first category on an entry as a subcategory of whatever the primary was. This meant a LOT of duplication of categories and a real mess to straighten out.

The newest build has a refined import script that allows you to choose to create subcategories or just strip anything other than the primary category when importing from MT. That’s what I used and it works great. I might go through later and modify what categories some of my entries are in, but it was enough to get me started.

Congrats Les! If you need help with .htaccess redirects, look no further. I set that up last night in a fit of boredom. How were your old archives set up? If they were like mine, all you would need to do is make a .htaccess MT template in your /archives folder. Here is what I used:

Also, be sure to close comments on your MT blogs, you don’t want a stray comment to overwrite your index.php file.

You did what I think I need to do, make all permalinks go to the comments page. I don’t like that the index template page doesn’t have comments, yet it is the equivelant of the individual archive in MT.

Yeah, I wanted to to work a little more like MT in that regard. Trackbacks point to the same page as well. It saves me from having to make a trackback template.

OK, ack. I broke your page. 

No, that’s just what I get for allowing all HTML tags in comments instead of sticking with safe HTML. I have to check the pMcode for their equivalent to BBCodes so I can fix some earlier comment threads. You can try posting your comment again and it should be OK now.

Oh, and the comment preview is working. It’s a very simple preview, but it’s working for the moment.

Great minds think alike—I also went live with EE tonight.  Everything seems to be working pretty well except my skinning code.  No worries, I’m sure I can get it to work before the week is out.  Maybe. *grin*

Anyway, mazeltov!

Hey, did your RSS feed addy change?

I don’t recall all that I wrote, Les. I know I asked that you make a post on your MT site notifying those who use RSS to read your site, to update their pages. I also showed off my comment code, which broke your site

I’m pretty sure it has. Thanks for reminding me as I’ll need to update my little buttons on the left. I need to double check the templates yet. They’re broken, but I’ll have them fixed soon.

Fortunately, I have a copy of it in email. BTW, how did you get EE to drop the .php from the toomuchsexy.org/index/blah/blah/blah URL? I’d like to do the same before people get too used to linking to the ugly version.

P.S. The mod_rewrite template you provided works like a friggin’ charm! Yay Etan! Thanks for saving me a big headache trying to figure that shit out for myself.

I’m an official member of the stupidevilbastard.com community!!! :cry:

Even though no one knows who the hell I am, because I never post. I’m still there though. Les… you are one of the most intellectually sound people I know (well… sort of know). You bring gret arguments (or rants, or whatever else it may be) in a very intelligible manner (especially compared to me). I guess I’m trying to say “great site” - so Great Site!!!

I’ll be off, now that I’m making a nuisance of myself (and being a kiss-ass).

Here is the how-to on renaming the index site file.

Your RSS 1.0 feed is a bit odd, it renders your entire site in my newsreader. I can email you a copy of the template I used.

I can also email you a copy of my RSS feed with comments, you need to use PHP includes to get that working currently.

Your RSS feeds link to the individual index page.

Yeah, I’m going have to take another look at those stupid templates. Send me your template for the 1.0 with comments. That could be handy.

Oh, and I got the site to work without the .php extension after a little experimentation that I’m sure confused the hell out of everyone.

I did a search and replace through the admin control panel.

Find {path=“weblog/index”}
Replace {comment_path=“weblog/comments”}

Be careful and verify those are the right paths, of course. You also will have to search for {path=weblog/index} (without the quotes).

I’ll send the 1.0 template.

I am going to post the templates, actually, because my email is still busted.

Here is the include file:

Damnit. Stupid EE messing up my code. I’ll try to write up an email, if you can IM me on AIM (EtanKerner) that would be ideal.

Well, I’m registered, now. Wait…does this make me an SEB groupie?

Something you have done has broken the activation link in the e-mail to activate my account.

I get a 404 error. :(

Ooops. Not to worry, I’ve activated you manually. Probably happened when I removed the .php from the URL.