I upgraded to MovableType 3.15 today. The upgrade was sort of a pain because it required making many changes to the way comments and trackbacks are handled. And I couldn’t just copy the code from the default templates because my stylesheet doesn’t have all the new layout tags. Anyway, I hope everything is working.
As part of the upgrade, I removed my reverse-Turing test (CAPTCHA) requirement on comments. Instead, you must either be a registered TypeKey user, or your comment must be approved before it will show up. If I start getting a lot of comment spam again, I’ll consider reverting to my old method. But, I hope this will be sufficient for now.
After spending too much time upgrading my blog today, I’m considering spending even more time so that I can switch to WordPress. A major reason I want to do this is that WordPress generates pages dynamically and I’d like to add content to my main index which is culled from del.icio.us. MoveableType is beginning to have dynamic content features, but I was unable to get it working after upgrading to 3.15 today. Also, seeing as MovableType is going comercial, it is probably in my long term interests to switch to the free WordPress project.