John Cade

While Jason Bynum informs his readers about blogging, and Timmy and Josh both get started on their new domain names, I have struggled for the past hour or so trying to setup a blogroll on my sidebar!  Outrageous. 

For those of you who don’t know, every blog is powered by a content management system (CMS).  While Jason, Timmy, and Josh are all using WordPress, which probably the most widely used CMS for blogging, I have decided to go with MovableType, a less popular one that I am more familiar with.

There is a reason why MT is not as popular, and I think I am finding out why.  The hard way.

In order to set up a blogroll (a list of links to other blogs), I had to go through what seems like a several hour process, which included setting up a second blog where I actually create the links and then inserting code into this blog to display those thinks. 

I admit, the last version of MovableType I used was 2.6, and the current version I am using is 4.0.  A lot has changed.

I found an article that claims that creating a blogroll in MT 4.0 is ‘easy’.  However, they leave out 3 or 4 crucial steps in order the make the dang thing actually work.  The directions aren’t nearly as detailed as they should be.

Movable Type 4.1 is in beta testing, and I’m hoping blogrolls with be included.

It shouldn’t be this hard.

Ugh.

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