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Even if the following fixes are only useful to one or two people, posting
\nthem to the blog makes them differently available for searching and bookmarking.
\nSince I installed MT3.34, I ran across a couple of small snags. Nothing
\ntoo off-putting, really. Just bumps along the up-gradual way.<\/p>\n

First, the new tagging features in MT3.3+ are, as I’ve said before, really
\nslick. But I was having trouble with the interface that allows me to merge
\ntags. Say I have two tags I want to merge, like "method" and "methods."
\nOkay? I click on one or the other and I the tag becomes editable. After I
\napply changes, I can select "Rename," in which case it will summon the database
\nto see if the new tag already exists. If it does exist, a java popup asks
\nwhether I want to proceed with the merge. If the revised tag doesn’t
\nexist, it goes ahead and applies the change. The other option, "cancel,"
\ndoes just that. Simple, eh?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Only, when I first attempted this process from Firefox, my browser of choice,
\nof course, the tag-revising process works the first time. Fiddling with
\nsubsequent tags doesn’t work. The java popup wouldn’t appear. So I
\nthought, it’s java. I reinstalled the java add-on. No change.
\nMust be one of the browser extensions interfering, right (Greasemonkey? Notefish?)?
\nI disabled all of them. And one by one, closing and re-opening the browser
\nbetween each try, I re-enabled each one. Nothing. After a couple of
\ndays of thinking that it didn’t matter that much (I could always use another
\nbrowser for the process), I tried switching to the default theme<\/i>.
\nAnd that did the trick. The theme I was using (Azerty II) seemed to be
\nconflicting with the java routine. I don’t have a technical explanation,
\nbut it’s fixed. So that’s that.<\/p>\n

The other snag was really more of a limited feature. I was using the
\nMTkeywords2tags<\/a> script
\nto convert, that’s right, keywords to tags. But rather than running the
\nscript on an entire installation, I only wanted to run it on my exam notes blog.
\nBeing somewhat of a perl dunce, I went ahead and emailed the author of the
\nscript. And he was nice enough to get back to me with this solution.<\/p>\n

In the .cgi file, replace<\/p>\n

my $iter = MT::Entry->load_iter;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

with<\/p>\n

my $iter = MT::Entry->load_iter({ blog_id => [5,8]<\/b> });<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The numbers in the square brackets match with the blog IDs to be converted.
\nThere. Two troubles, both of them troubleshot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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