I found that some users were being blocked from commenting by part of the anti-spam system. If you've had trouble with commenting, please give it a try again. I expect the change I've put in this morning will liberate more than one of you from comment Purgatory. :-)
--RC
Thanks, readers, for your patience during the system maintenance Friday evening.
I upgraded the blog software to Movable Type 4.3 a few weeks ago, and would like to take a moment to remind folks of how to deal with any problems with commenting.
If you haven't logged in to the web site, every blog entry page will have this notice at the bottom:
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flush the browser cache, delete all cookies for the web site mt.stblogs.org, and refresh the page in your browser. (You might find it easier to delete all cookies, if you like.)
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Hi, readers--
Recently some commenters on the various weblogs here have reported troubles trying to log in to the Movable Type system with a username they've created.
This usually happens because the person's username never completed the registration process. When someone creates a username, the system sends a confirmation e-mail message immediately to verify that the e-mail address given by the person is valid. If the person doesn't see the message or doesn't click the link in it, the username never becomes "enabled" for posting comments.
In some cases, the confirmation e-mails may be mistaken for spam by a user's e-mail system, so the user may not see them.
The e-mails will have the subject "Movable Type Account Confirmation". Users can search their mail (including the spam folder) for that subject line and find any old confirmations they haven't acted on. Once you do that, your username will be enabled, and you should be able to comment with joy.
First Friday arrived for August the other day, and with it a new blog here at stblogs.org: Sr. Cora Lombardo has started the site Caritas Christi to share the depths of the love of God which are to be found in the Heart of Christ. Sr. Cora is a member of the religious community The Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and serves as the DRE at St. Paul Parish in West Haven, CT.
A new site has opened here at stblogs.org. Paul Zalonski, a postulant at St Mary's Abbey (OSB) in Morristown, NJ, is writing a blog under the title Communio.
Paul has been until recently a prep school teacher; he studied theology at Weston School of Theology (now part of Boston College) and liturgy at Notre Dame. I look forward to the fruits of his contemplations!
Hi, authors and readers--
Update (July 20): I just want to say how pleased I am with the new version of MT.
There was a sacrifice involved in upgrading, because some of the new features in MT4 -- such as the CAPTCHA number-test for comments -- required scrapping old templates. I tossed all the old templates and styles people were using, since using CAPTCHA is just indispensable. I'm sure that losing the custom work was a not-so-pleasant surprise for the bloggers, but I'm happy to help them save material from the old MT3 installation and use it in their new designs.
The new drag-and-drop interface for "widgets" makes it quite a bit easier to add defined chunks of content to the sidebars of blogs and to rearrange the order in which those units appear. Bobbi of RevolutionofLove.com got to work on her own ahead of me, but I sent out a how-to instruction for everyone else, and have been getting good feedback.
The StyleCatcher plugin optional for MT3 is now standard and makes it easy to apply out-of-the-box designs to a blog, with no rebuilding required. I still have to work through how to customize a style with graphics replacing a plain-text header; then there will be a how-to instruction on that as well.
So, readers, be patient while the visuals of these fine blogs remain under renovation or restoration, and feel free to comment as usual.
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