Byrne Reese has released MediaManager beta4... an updated, overhauled, "new and improved" MT32-friendly replacement for BookQueueToo, as well as MTAmazon32v1.0 (repackaged and updated MTAmazon). Very cool! Check out the screenshots for a walk-through and you'll be impressed, too.

Installation (on MT32b2) was not too difficult. First, I edited mt-config.cgi to specify my mt-static path (even though I do have it in the default location). Then I uploaded MTAmazon32.pl and MediaManager into my plugins directory (making sure to CHMOD 755 mmanager.cgi). In System Overview/Plugins I configured MTAmazon32 with my Amazon subscriber ID and cache location. Then I configured MTAmazon32's Amazon...

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As if there wasn't already enough to get excited about with MT3.2 just around the corner, Byrne announced the coming transition of BookQueueToo to MediaManager which will take advantage of all the ninja sweetness of MT's new goodies. Fun!

And here's a somewhat related freebie... somewhere on some MTAmazon related sites (should have bookmarked them) suggestions have been made to add "/ref=nosim/" to Amazon URLs so the link takes you directly to the page with the "add to cart" link, resulting (supposedly) in a better referral rate. Here's an example:

<a href="<MTAmazonLink>/ref=nosim/"><img src="<MTAmazonMediumImage>"></a>

I also tacked /ref=nosim/ onto...

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Success! I upgraded from MT3.2b1 to MT3.2b2 in under a minute. ;-) This upgrade went much better and I have been able, finally, to rebuild my previously existing blogs (well, I haven't tested ALL of them, but I'll work on that tomorrow). Installing the new MediaManager (replacement for BookQueueToo) helped ease the transition. I'll report separately about that.

Posted by kate on July 22, 2005 06:34 AM filed under MT3.2beta

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Carla :: July 28, 2005 12:29 PM

Hi Kate,

I saw in the MT3.2 Beta Blog where we were having the same issue regarding duplicate entries in the category and montly archive...

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