All right -- I admit it. I've been posting at Rhymes With Right since April, but still haven't imported my old posts from my old blogger site.

"Why?", you may ask (then again, you may not care -- but I'm guessing you do since you've read this far).

Well, it is a little matter of not understanding the instructions in the MT manual.

So, I need one of two things:
1) Someone to explain the process to me in words of (preferably) one syllable or less; or
2) Someone to volunteer to do the dirty deed for me (no, not THAT dirty deed!).

Any help is appreciated -- and please forgive my utter lameness.

Posted by: Greg at 02:46 AM | Comments (38) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Greg:

Pixy recently posted a set of really good instructions on importing Blogspot specifically to MuNu. It's at
http://munuviana.mu.nu/archives/087301.php

Have a look at that post & see if you feel up to it. If not, by all means post back here and we can set you up to have either Jim or I do it for ya.

Hey Pixy... just in case you read this.

Is there any way we can get the Search script on this page to only search Munuviana, instead of returning results form all MuNu blogs? It would really help Munuvians to be able search for tech answers here before having to post. There's a wealth of info here, but it's bloody hard to track down. Oh, and can you put the Importy instructions link in the sidebar as a Useful Thingy?
Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at August 03, 2005 04:13 AM

2 The Importy instructions were excellent, but I've had awful trouble importing more than 999 posts. I somehow managed to get up to 1,200 or so (don't ask me how), but lately when I import, instead of importing posts which I have not already imported, it imports posts which I already have, thus duplicating the posts on my Mu.Nu site. Then I have to go thru the entire list of posts on my Mu.Nu site and delete the duplicates. Forgive my lack of expertise, but there has GOT to be an easier way to do this. Technies can complicate a glass of water.

Posted by: Mark @ at August 03, 2005 09:07 AM

3 Yeah, doing more than 999 is going to be a problem. I didn't realise that anyone had that many posts.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 03, 2005 09:22 AM

4 Paul - yes and yes. I might make two search things, one to search munu and one just Munuviana.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 03, 2005 09:23 AM

5 When you consider that "recently" means 15,000 posts ago...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 03, 2005 09:24 AM

6 Give me a buzz if you need help with it, Greg. I've done a bazillion of 'em.

Posted by: Jim @ at August 03, 2005 10:14 AM

7 I just went with Google. I think it works better than MT, and also takes some load off of Pixy's server.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at August 03, 2005 02:55 PM

8 (((I hope that doesn't make me a traitor...)))

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at August 03, 2005 02:57 PM

9 David:

That's what I had to do too, even knowing the post I was looking for. Thing is, some of the recent new recruits won't know how to get google to limit itself to jsut one site. It'd be great to be able to say: Iff you've got a question, be sure to search Munuviana first.

But not when, as Pixy points out, that's 15,000 posts since June. Holy crap, Pixy!

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at August 03, 2005 06:17 PM

10 David - Yeah, the MT search function (at least in 2.6; haven't really pushed the 3.1 version very hard yet) - is complete crap.

But MT wasn't really designed to handle 100,000+ posts. It's holding up fairly well, but we do need to move to something better, and I'm working on that again now that I've finished moving house.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 03, 2005 11:50 PM

11 What's wrong with just using Google? Including their code is as easy as including MT's. And they do it for free on their own server, and do it well.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at August 04, 2005 12:21 PM

12 What's wrong with just using Google?

Nothing, really. It's certainly faster.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 04, 2005 01:17 PM

13 Boy do I feel like a slug. I've been posting since March and haven't brought them over. I hate blog maintenance.

Guess I should finally just do it. Blech.

Posted by: Bou @ at August 04, 2005 10:41 PM

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Carnival of Liberty V over at Owlish Mutterings!

There's all sorts of great stuff in the Carnival, including several submissions from fellow MuNuvians.

Posted by: EricC at 05:32 PM | Comments (51) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I am having difficulty with making categories work. (I since removed the code out of frustration, so you won't find the categories at my site.) When I had them on the site, I'd click on them, and instead of seeing the posts within the category, I get one of those "Page cannot be found." Can anyone please clearly explain how to make them function correctly? Thank u.

Posted by: Mark N at 06:44 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Apiarist wants to know how I got my blog to do that pop-up comment thingie.

Because I do most of blog tweaking while drinking beer (or cleaning up beer-related messes) I don't really remember how I did that.

So, how'd I do that? I'm certainly not so savvy as to have coded it myself. Wasn't there a "Useful Thingy" link about that somewhere or was this something I squirreled away from the MT forums?

Posted by: Tiffany at 04:48 PM | Comments (20) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Your blog appears to have the default comment templates. So you probably didn't do anything to make it that way. There is a script that shows your comments inline, withut the pop up window. Those are really the only two options I know about

Posted by: Gir @ at July 31, 2005 05:12 PM

2 Hmm. I figured as much. I remember that I didn't put too much thought into it at the time, so it MUST be the default.

Posted by: Tiffany @ at July 31, 2005 05:50 PM

3 I was just monkeying around with the same thing.

I'm modifying a template for three-column design that I nicely glommed from Eric.

Eric doens't use the 'pop up' comments window whereas I did (on my old template) and still wanted to use it.

I THINK that if you insert the following code between the and tags in the Main Index template that you'll get the desired effect, i.e. 'pop up' comment window:

function OpenComments (c) {
window.open(c,
'comments',
'width=580,height=580,scrollbars=yes,status=yes');
}

function OpenTrackback (c) {
window.open(c,
'trackback',
'width=480,height=280,scrollbars=yes,status=yes');
}
The only thing you might have to also modify would be the layout/format of the 'Comments' thingy at the bottom of each post.

While I'm no genius at MT coding, this worked for me.

Posted by: Mad Mikey @ at July 31, 2005 09:58 PM

4 And since we're on the subject....

How do I adjust the margins within the 'pop up' comments window? The current settings that I have make the text butt right up against the left-side of the comments window and I cannot figure out how to adjust it.

I know that messing around with the comment settings in the Main Index template only affects the bottom portion of the post window.

I've also looked at the Comment Listing template, but that is getting me nowhere fast.

[/stupid]

Posted by: Mad Mikey @ at July 31, 2005 10:07 PM

5 after the "scrollbars=yes,status=yes" bit, and before the single quote, try adding ",padding=15px". If that adds the space all around, you can adjust the 15 up or down to suit. If that works, I'm not entirely positive that will.

Posted by: Ted @ at July 31, 2005 10:22 PM

6 NO GO Ted.

Is there any place else that I could try this??

Posted by: Mad Mikey @ at July 31, 2005 10:34 PM

7 Mikey: If you want to, you can look at my comment template and CSS and grab them.

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at July 31, 2005 11:41 PM

8 Yes, Mikey, add that padding line in the CSS sheet of the comment template.

If that's all Greek to you, let me know and I'll post the step-by-step.

Posted by: Ogre @ at August 02, 2005 12:28 PM

9 I've been tinkering with the templates over the last few days and somewhere in that endevour I managed to fix that problem. I believe it was in the 'Comment Listing Template'.

Now my only major problem is to get it so that anyone using IE6 can properly view my blog.

Posted by: Mad Mikey @ at August 03, 2005 12:03 AM

10 So.........who's going to play smart and deliver all that info in a nutshell to Apiarist?

Anyone?

Bueller? Bueller?

Posted by: Tffany @ at August 03, 2005 12:44 AM

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Now... "I HEART FIREFOX! I hate IE!"

Okay peeps, so my template was working sofunkyfine in both FF and IE...and now for some reason...in IE, the RIGHT column will shift ever so slight left.

Before the page loads in its entirety in IE, everything will be cool and aligned properly, but by the time it finisheds loading, THEN the right side bar will eek a bit to the left. What the heck? At this present time where I am I don't have Opera loaded on this machine to check it in that browser, but in Firefox, things are sweet as always.

Can someone lend me a hand to see if mighta accidentally goofed up something while I was moving stuff around recently?

Posted by: Kyer at 05:04 PM | Comments (21) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I tried to post the letter "t". It was rejected.

"Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: m"

WTF?

Update: Never mind, I fixed it.

Posted by: Steve Janke at 02:52 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I'm trying to modify my template so that there are three columns instead of two and I'm getting nowhere fast.

I have read the MuNuby Help 3-Column Stylesheet entry but that just gets me nowhere as a different speed.

Help....

UPDATE
Okay, I've gotten the basic three column format up and running, but there's a glitch that I cannot quickly fix.

Everytime that I attempt to post something (the notice for people to be patient while I tweek the templates), I get the following message:

Building entry 'Template Tweeking' failed: Build error in template 'Individual Entry Archive': Error in tag: Can't find included template module 'Remember Me'

Advice anyone??

Bueller? Bueller....?

Posted by: Mad Mikey at 12:07 AM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

How many us are Blog*Spot refugees? A lot, I bet. Well, you might want to know that some slimy type folks are finding old Blog*Spot URL's that you and I have shut down and re-opening them to sell stuff. For example, my old blog was Eric's Random Musings, before JohnL of Texas Best Grok so graciously sponsored me into MuNuvia. Anyhow, now that I'm here, I discovered, after reading this post on The Mudville Gazette, that some weasel was using my old URL to sell ringtones to people.

If you recently moved from Blog*Spot and haven't yet shut down your blog there, I recommend you don't, so someone doesn't hijack your good name.

Posted by: EricC at 06:34 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

The Open Source Amendment Project petition is now available online. Tell Everyone.

After days on not getting any response from ipetitions about why when they were actually online the petition was not, I have moved to a new host. If you have put a link to the old site, the new address is http://www.petitiononline.com/Property/petition.html.

Also, before ipetitions melted down, there were two people who managed to sign. I am sorry to say that those names are lost, and you will have to re-sign at the new site.

Technorati Tags: Eminent Domain, Kelo, Property Rights, property-rights, Supreme Court

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 06:26 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I am trying to add an "ABOUT" section to my blog. I am adding it to the template but
when I save, rebuild, and got to the site, the text is running into the body of my posts and getting cut off. I have tried just writing the script out, and I have tried doing it in columns, but either way, it runs off the page. I am new to this, and don't know what I am doing wrong. Any help is much appreciated! I can be e-mailed at mapstone@sbcglobal.net Also, how do I write a linkable e-mail tag? Thanks, all!

Posted by: Old Cloots at 01:01 PM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I have a few images from old posts that I'd like to pull off the server. I know how to upload, but I realized that once they are on there I have no idea how to delete them. Help!

Posted by: Jordana at 04:21 PM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hey Pixy, since you're sitting around with nothing to do -- It's not like you're moving or using dialup or anything, right? Oh...uh...

Well, if you get a chance, I just noticed something about the deferred posts, and it might not be possible to fix, but it would be neat -- it seems that when a deferred post gets posted (which works great, by the way), it does not ping. If I re-save the post, the pings will happen, but not when it's posted.

Is this by design? Has it been addressed and I can't find it on the site?

Again, it's no biggie, just a "neat thing" if it could work as *I* want it to...

Posted by: Ogre at 03:54 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

UPDATE: iPetitions was online briefly this morning but the amendment petition was not available. As of 2:00 EDT they are offline again. When I have the chance, I am going to find a new home for the petition. Possibly tonight but more likely on the weekend.

UPDATE: iPetitions seems to be online again (8:32 EDT) but the amendment petition still defaults to the under construction page. I sent them another email begging for a solution. Calling them seems pointless as their voicemail tells you to expect a quicker response to email. I'm willing to wait until noon tomorrow before pulling the plug and going to another site. There are several others available, but they are not as nice looking and some are bit over burdened with advertising.

Stay Tuned.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 05:11 AM | Comments (19) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Does anyone know how to include the tag in the address line that you see in Firefox? Like Google has that stupid G, etc? I'd like one for my site.

Thanks!
-H

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 04:56 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

The move was a mitigated disaster (the movers did a very good job, but I wasn't ready in time), but at least it happened, and I am now up and running - ish - from Pixy Central Mk II.

I'll be busy for the next few days (now I have to go back to the old place to clean it...) but after that it's all MuNu all the time, excepting short breaks for my day job and sleep.

P.S. I'm still on dialup. Dialup, Pixy says, is slow, really slow. You won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindboggling slow it is. You may think it's slow when you've gone over your monthly download limit, but that's just peanuts to dialup.

P.P.S. Multi-purpose appliances are great until they break. If you have, just by way of an example, a combined washer/dryer, it's really good because you can put dirty clothes in, turn it on, and come back later to find them clean and dry. But if it breaks down, you end up hand-washing everything and then hanging it up to dry in the bathroom.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:07 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I have been trying to get lost of attention for the Open Source Amendment Project. And while it has grown in participation it is not quite where I want it or where it needs to be.

So I decided to add Technorati Tags to the posts to get them some more exposure. Everything is configured the way it is supposed to be in Ecto. Ecti inserts the tags into the post just like I told it to. The tags link to the right pages. MY POSTS DON'T SHOW UP.

I even went here and did a manual ping. MY POSTS DON'T SHOW UP.

I also joined a TTLB Community, Life, Liberty, Property. I don't know if it is related to above problem, but MY POSTS DON'T SHOW UP.

I'm just trying to change the world a little. Why wont they listen?

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 01:43 AM | Comments (20) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

On my new blog, why aren't all the links, calendar, search function, etc. moving to the right margin? Is it because I (we) don't yet have enough posts up? When we do, will all of those move from below the last post to the right margin?

Thanks.

Posted by: Rhodey at 03:49 PM | Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Yes it is and yes they will

Posted by: Gir @ at July 16, 2005 04:30 PM

2 Many thanks, Gir!

Posted by: Rhodey @ at July 16, 2005 04:50 PM

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Uh oh. Watch out. It's Kyer again.

I want to make my comments extendable. I noticed in the Thingys and Doodads section there are two helpful posts for this.

However, I don't know the difference between HTML and PHP. ::winces at noviceness::

First, what IS the diff, and second, how do I find out which uh.. "version" site I have?

I remember a while back somebody here in the Family (or maybe it was the strange drifter that handed me these scratch n sniff stickers that make me...)

::collapses:: ***

ok, I'm back now. Someone told me to input:

[?php ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); ?]

(it has "<";s on both side, not brackets)

at the top of my main index template. What does that do?

ALSO ---- In implementing the Entendable POST code, it says to implement the code in the HEAD section of "every page you want to utilize the script"....other than in the Main Index, where else would I put it???

Posted by: Kyer at 09:44 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 PHP is the way to go as you can use all kinds of other cool toys with PHP.

If you go into the templates and look at the output file name for your main index, it will read main.php if you are running php. If not, it will read .html.

Instructions for changing over to php are here:
http://munuviana.mu.nu/archives/075063.php

If that makes your brain explodey, let me know and I can set it up for you

Posted by: Gir @ at July 15, 2005 10:42 PM

2 Oh, and as for the extended entry script...Some people put in their archive templates. This also works for the show comments here script.

Posted by: Gir @ at July 15, 2005 10:44 PM

3 You're set up with PHP, Kyer.

That gzhandler is a compressor (decompressor? precompressor? whateverthehellitis) and it helps save the server some work. It's good to have in there because saving load on the server is very good.

Might speed up graphics loading too, but I'm not completely sure about that.

Posted by: Jim @ at July 16, 2005 01:41 AM

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I've tossed around the idea of going to WordPress instead of the MT upgrade. Mostly I'd like to go to it because #1, you can password protect and #2, you can park a post at the top. Not that I have the inclination to do either of these very often, but you never know. If I have the capacity to do so, I might just feel a bit better about not sensoring myself as much.

Anyway, I know that our cpanel gives us the option. I'm just not sure how moving old posts & comments works, in addition to stylesheet. AND I'm not sure where to login once I do that. I might have more questions, but those come to mind first.

So, has anyone done it????

Posted by: Auterrific at 05:20 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

'Cause I don't.....

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