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Wednesday, April 28, 2004

I’ve just upgraded my version of Movable Type from 2.64 to 2.661. I hadn’t wanted to upgrade, because I don’t like the redirect feature on the new MT comment pages. In the old version, after reading a comment on a MT blog, you could roll your mouse over the commenter’s name and see the person’s URL or e-mail address. This was especially helpful if multiple people with the same first name regularly commented on a particular blog. But the new version of MT got rid of this, because it was being abused by spammers. That meant that for blogs using the newest version of MT, there was no longer a fast way to tell which Jeff was which, for example.

But, lo and behold, it turns out there’s a plugin that allows you to get rid of the redirect feature even if you’ve upgraded. Hooray for Optional Redirect!

So I’ve installed the plugin and I’ve upgraded, and all is right with the world again.

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3 drops of oil

  1. That redirect feature has been driving me nuts. I started with 2.661 and didn’t know it wasn’t always that way, though I’d wondered how some blogs were without.

    Bless you for finding the plugin!

    Donated by Nick
    4/28/04 @ 3:57 AM


  2. Hear, hear. I’m off to download and install it right now.

    Donated by Thom
    4/28/04 @ 2:53 PM


  3. bid goodbye to pesky redirects
    As [the other] Jeff points out, he (as well as others) had been holding off on upgrading Movable Type to version 2.661 because of the new feature in comment pages that hides the URL of the commenter within a redirect….

    Donated by elf-reflection :: living in changeling times
    4/28/04 @ 3:28 PM