Question

A list of all known issues in the latest version of Movable Type. Please be sure to review this list before using the product or opening a support ticket.

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As of Version 3.16, released April 18, 2005 • Configuration • A new application method ("app_path") prevents the login cookie from being set when Movable Type is installed in the root folder, rather than a subfolder. See Keep getting login screen for the solution. • Archives • It is impossible to produce files with no file extension by using the File extension for archive...

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The following topics have not bee sufficiently covered in the user manual but will be included at a future date. • Save & Rebuild button on New/Edit Entry Screen. • Creative Commons Licensing. • IP Banning. • Throttling. • Author Listing Screen. • Deleting a Weblog. • Plugins Listing Screen. • Atom ID in author profile. • General discussion of Listing Screens in Getting Started Introduction. • Expiration of sessions if Remember Me option not used. Include configuration directive and purpose of feature. • Background Tasks. Testing, purpose/explanation and configuration. • Defining Default Templates for All Weblogs. • Main Menu Welcome Message....

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The following topics have not bee sufficiently covered in the user manual but will be included at a future date. • Save & Rebuild button on New/Edit Entry Screen. • Creative Commons Licensing. • IP Banning. • Throttling. • Author Listing Screen. • Deleting a Weblog. • Plugins Listing Screen. • Atom ID in author profile. • General discussion of Listing Screens in Getting Started Introduction. • Expiration of sessions if Remember Me option not used. Include configuration directive and purpose of feature. • Background Tasks. Testing, purpose/explanation and configuration. • Defining Default Templates for All Weblogs....

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3.2 (2005.08.25)

• The auto-expiration of Junk feedback items only occurs when a user visits the main menu for that weblog. In future versions, auto-expiration of junk items will be triggered system-wide when a new junk feedback item is received. • When an entry is saved from the Preview screen, duplicate TrackBack pings may be sent out • When an entry is saved from the Preview screen, the entry basename may be incremented or, if the title was changed, altered to fit the new title. • Subcategories are not alphabetically sorted in the category assignment listings on the entry editing...

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3.17 (2005.06.02)

• Once an entry or category has been set to receive TrackBack pings, disabling pings for it through the UI will not actually refuse pings to that item but will suppress display of those pings. • Rebuilds will fail silently after saving an entry if a problem exists in your templates (for example, mismatched tags or a missing include module). An error will be shown, however, upon manual rebuild using the "Rebuild Site" functionality. • The nofollow plugin will cause a spurious warning for users with older versions of Perl upon running...

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