Alright, that was much more painless than I had anticipated. The change in configuration files really only meant that the database password setting was in the configuration file. The rest of it was not only the same basic settings, but in the same basic format and in a different file name. No issues there.

A couple of directories had been removed -- so I removed those from the server. The images directory, as well as a couple of files, are now in an mt-static directory. This wasn't documented, but I quickly saw that this was a problem when I loaded up the management site and the styles weren't there. So I removed the old files and uploaded the new ones where they were supposed to be. (The instructions had said to overwrite files, so I thought maybe they were just in their own directory because they are special and have their own path setting... not so.)

I like the new configuration abilities. Plugins can be configured both at the system-wide level and blog level. Entries, comments, and whatnot can all be viewed aggregated across all blogs or just one blog. Basically, a whole bunch of system-wide settings and listings has been added on top.

The whole management system has been upgraded with a better look and more modern scripts and HTML pieces (think Hotmail vs Gmail in their current incarnations). The new look and feel is much better, while still being very much the same old MT that we all like.

I haven't let it touch my templates yet and it hasn't broken them yet. I'll probably just continue with my own templates, since they seem to work fine, and just look at the new ones to see if I'm missing anything cool. My own were redesigned to make stylesheet management easier. They aren't perfect yet, but they are known to me rather than having to learn the new templates then apply my look to those.

Posted by Shane on September 25, 2005 2:43 PM | Permalink