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February 12, 2004
Not knitting tonight
I had another episode of comment-spam, so I decided to upgrade my Movable Type installation to take advantage of some of their anti-spam tools. I did that instead of knitting tonight. As other MT-users are well aware, this involves downloading an upgrade, unzipping it, then uploading the files into their proper directories. Not too difficult; it proceeded without incident.
But if any of you other knit-bloggers out there are experienced with MT, maybe you can answer some questions for me:
- Why does it still say 'Powered by Movable Type 2.64' down at the lower right (should be 2.661, and my main index template has a variable for the version number - it's not hard-coded.)
- Anyone know how to selectively delete more than 100 previous comment spams without using MySQL (please, I don't want to have to learn something new), and without deleting all of the old comments? Is there a script somewhere? A shortcut? Doing it manually within MT will take more time than it's worth to me.
- Similarly, does anyone know where to find a script to close comments on old blog entries? I found a reference to one, but the link didn't work.
I poked around the Support Forum for a while and came up empty-handed. I'm not losing sleep over any of these items, so please - don't go to any extra trouble.