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For some reason, whenever I do a major release upgrade on Movable Type, I have problems with the templates and stylesheets. I do the upgrade, and all of the design elements of the site stay the way they were so when I try to use a new “Style” it breaks.

To fix it, I had to create a test blog so MT4 will create a fresh set of templates and then copy them over to the old blog.

I’m going to stick with the new column layout, I think. Over the next few days I’m going to try to get the content of the right-side bars set. Once that’s done, I’ll get into some of the new things in MT4 (Assets? Finally.) and maybe do a little tweaking. In between, I have a couple of things to post related to vacation.

Looks like ecto isn't working with my upgraded MT install. Nice. At least the posting interface is improved.

Going to be a little weird while I figure stuff out.

Comments are back.

I was tinkering with the commenting code, renaming the old one, but neglected to put the new file in place after deciding to drop the changes.

Oops

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Since I upgraded my MovableType I've been doing some playing around with the StyleCatcher. StyleCatcher is a plugin that is supposed to provide an easier way to find and install new themes for your MT blog.

It hasn't been working at all so my blog has been looking pretty messed up since I started tinkering with it.

Today I figured out what the problem is.

This version of the blog is a couple years old, having started out on some 2.x version of Movable Type. Each time an upgrade would come out, I'd update the code and the database and be done with it. I never messed with the templates, really so I didn't know that there were some pretty big changes in the templates since this site was rebuilt. The old tags in the old Main Index template wasn't translating back to what the system was using to call the Style elements.

I created a new blog from scratch and copied its Main Index template and now things are looking pretty good.

I switched the sidebar over to using the new Widget Manager while I was at it.

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Since the Upgrade, I've been playing around with the site a bit. There were some things that weren't working right. I think most of those are fixed now.

I'm messing with the templates a bit. MovableType added a plugin called the StyleCatcher that makes it easy to change the theme on your blog. Aparently you still need to change your templates to make the elements fit into the new theme.

I was running a 2.x theme probably, so I'm catching up here. Things might look a little weird over the next couple days. Please excuse the mess

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http://www.learningmovabletype.com/archives/001566a_safe_way_to_upgrade_to_mt_33.php

Via the MT Community Forums.

For those of you out there that like to take things a little smarter.

Upgraded to MT 3.31 overnight and this morning. For some reason, I didn't check to make sure everything worked, so I found out this afternoon that my front page was gone. It's fixed now. Oops. At least not many people noticed. :D