I've been sitting here for the last 3+ hours doing some site maintenance.
Movable Type version 4.12, does not come with a close comments on old entries function, and every plugin that I found that was supposed to close comments on old entries, has not worked.
I know how to install plugins, I've installed a few different ones, so I know that I installed it correctly, it just doesn't work, so I've been sitting here manually closing comments on my old entries.
Luckily, I haven't written too many entries to have to do this manual close on, only 427 entries.
I've only been blogging at this site since July 2008, so it hasn't really been a long enough time to build up thousands of entries like my other blog, My Single Mom Life, has.
I've been writing at MSML since February 2004, and I've racked up 5757 entries, and have 21,373 comments.
That's a whole lot of comments!
Anyway, I'm going through and closing comments on all of my old entries because of spammers.
They have found this blog and the old entries and have taken a liking to those old entries.
Perhaps they think that because they are old, that I won't notice their spam comments, but spammers are totally stupid.
BOTH of my blogs are on comment moderation, all new comments get emailed to me for approval.
Here on KatScan, when the comment moderation email comes in, I have 4 options to deal with it.
I can approve it, view it, edit it, or report it as spam.
Once I report it as spam, I can go straight to that entry and close the comments on it, so this close comments project that I am on, isn't that bad actually, I've already closed the comments on probably more than half of my entries already thanks to those spammers.
I know that I just wrote a post similar to this on December 21st, and I know that I said that there were maybe only 50 entries left that needed to be closed, but I underestimated that number.
There's maybe 100-150 entries left that need to be closed now that I've been manually closing them from entry # 427 and moving backward to the newest entries.
It's not a long process at all, MT 4.12 rebuilds the entries very quickly.
But I have found an issue though that has me completely stumped.
On just some of my old entries, the posts are completely gone.
When I get to the edit entry page, the only thing typed there is the post title.
None of my post is there.
I click on "view" and there's nothing on the published page, only the comments people have left and the leave a comment form.
I click on "cached snapshot of page" in the Google toolbar add-on for Firefox, and there's no cached snapshot to copy, and I've gone to the Wayback Machine to try and find the posts, and they aren't there either.
Lucky for me, there aren't many missing entries, perhaps 18 at the most, but it is quite the perplexing issue.
It's such a perplexing issue that I've posted at the MT forums asking for help.
I have no idea what happened to those entries, why it happened, or how to prevent it from happening again, I'm really, totally, stumped.
If there's anyone out there who uses MT version 4.12, or any version of MT at all, and has the slightest clue why this has happened, please please please, post to the comments of this entry and tell me why it happened and how to prevent it, or email me at mysinglemomlife@gmail.com
Any help anyone can offer would be most appreciated.
Thank you!
EDIT**
Stupid fucking spammers.
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Movable Type version 4.12, does not come with a close comments on old entries function, and every plugin that I found that was supposed to close comments on old entries, has not worked.
I know how to install plugins, I've installed a few different ones, so I know that I installed it correctly, it just doesn't work, so I've been sitting here manually closing comments on my old entries.
Luckily, I haven't written too many entries to have to do this manual close on, only 427 entries.
I've only been blogging at this site since July 2008, so it hasn't really been a long enough time to build up thousands of entries like my other blog, My Single Mom Life, has.
I've been writing at MSML since February 2004, and I've racked up 5757 entries, and have 21,373 comments.
That's a whole lot of comments!
Anyway, I'm going through and closing comments on all of my old entries because of spammers.
They have found this blog and the old entries and have taken a liking to those old entries.
Perhaps they think that because they are old, that I won't notice their spam comments, but spammers are totally stupid.
BOTH of my blogs are on comment moderation, all new comments get emailed to me for approval.
Here on KatScan, when the comment moderation email comes in, I have 4 options to deal with it.
I can approve it, view it, edit it, or report it as spam.
Once I report it as spam, I can go straight to that entry and close the comments on it, so this close comments project that I am on, isn't that bad actually, I've already closed the comments on probably more than half of my entries already thanks to those spammers.
I know that I just wrote a post similar to this on December 21st, and I know that I said that there were maybe only 50 entries left that needed to be closed, but I underestimated that number.
There's maybe 100-150 entries left that need to be closed now that I've been manually closing them from entry # 427 and moving backward to the newest entries.
It's not a long process at all, MT 4.12 rebuilds the entries very quickly.
But I have found an issue though that has me completely stumped.
On just some of my old entries, the posts are completely gone.
When I get to the edit entry page, the only thing typed there is the post title.
None of my post is there.
I click on "view" and there's nothing on the published page, only the comments people have left and the leave a comment form.
I click on "cached snapshot of page" in the Google toolbar add-on for Firefox, and there's no cached snapshot to copy, and I've gone to the Wayback Machine to try and find the posts, and they aren't there either.
Lucky for me, there aren't many missing entries, perhaps 18 at the most, but it is quite the perplexing issue.
It's such a perplexing issue that I've posted at the MT forums asking for help.
I have no idea what happened to those entries, why it happened, or how to prevent it from happening again, I'm really, totally, stumped.
If there's anyone out there who uses MT version 4.12, or any version of MT at all, and has the slightest clue why this has happened, please please please, post to the comments of this entry and tell me why it happened and how to prevent it, or email me at mysinglemomlife@gmail.com
Any help anyone can offer would be most appreciated.
Thank you!
EDIT**
Stupid fucking spammers.
