Well, I’ve bitten the bullet and upgraded to MT 4, and so far everything seems OK. I got it working pretty much straight out of the box, and I took Sixapart’s advice and did it as side by side install to allow me to only move across folders that I actually needed. That said, once I’d run the upgrade, MT 3.3x didn’t see any blogs, so it’s 4 all the way now.
There are a couple of things that I need to fix. I believe I should be able to use CAPTCHA to allow comment approval going forward. But the current system works well, so I’ll leave that for another day.
More pressing is MTAmazon which just showed a neat little icon of the current book or DVD that I’m watching. For reasons beyond me, that stopped working a couple of weeks ago. But now with MT 4, I don’t yet have a complete solution.
In fact, the whole site needs a visual overhaul – it’s something that I’ve been meaning to do for ages. Back in June this blog celebrated its fifth birthday (yes it passed me by too). I check today, and I’ve published over a half a million words. Anyway, watch this space as I get around to giving the place a good spring autumn clean.