A few tips on making MT not suck:
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The default archive url scheme is totally broken. It uses the database ID, which isn’t really permanent (in the event of a database dump & reload, for example). It’s fairly simple to change this under Configuration — Archiving — Archive File Template. See this page for more info and links:
Permalink URLS - Nuke the stupid calendar. Nuff said.
- Please put full content in your RSS feeds. Templates, RSS 1.0 or RSS 2.0, and replace <MTEntryExcerpt> with
<$MTEntryBody remove_html=”0″ encode_xml=”1″ $>
This means I can actually read something you read offline, without having loaded the page first. If you really want to split it up, use the Body and Extended Entry sections wisely — here’s 4 paragaphs on a concept, here’s 300 lines of code samples in the extended entry. But just 20 words means I get irritated and don’t read what you wrote at all.