I’ve had troubles with Typo (which I’ve been using for my blog) for a while and kept thinking to myself that I’d move to WordPress at one point. Then Mephisto came out and made quite a splash, with the Rails Weblog switching to Mephisto from Typo. So I figured when I got enough free time I’d look into Mephisto instead of moving to WordPress. Of course, I still haven’t gotten to try migrating to Mephisto and now Typo 4.0 has been released. Which just goes to show that if you ignore a problem long enough, sometimes it’ll solve itself. ;-) Hopefully that’s the case this time, and comments and trackbacks work like they should. If not, then I’ll go back to looking at Mephisto or WordPress.
For any other Typo users out there, the upgrade went smoothly. I backed everything up and switched to the default theme (since I figured Origami, which was written for Typo 2.6.0, would break), and upgraded Typo and Rails using svn. After the files had updated and the tables migrated, everything worked. Now I’ve switched to a lighter-weight theme called Scribbish, and the blog seems much snappier.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Scott Laird // Jul 24, 2006 at 07:05 AM
I know about the trackbacks, but out of curiosity was was broken with the comments?
2 jennyw // Jul 24, 2006 at 07:51 AM
Duplicates were left and people would complain … you can see in old comments (although I’ve deleted some dupes). Of course, I wasn’t using 2.6.0 but rather r852, which might explain the problems.
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