I've had a bit of time to retool things around here. First, I think that the comments function is finally working. (FYI, the CAPTCHA didn't like the "Preview Only" option on comments, which isn't necessary now anyway because of the CAPTCHA.) It still seems to take forever, but MT isn't exactly lightning fast.
The archives are also cleaned up. One thing that was slowing everything down was rebuilding archives with every post, comment, etc. Now that the blog has over 2800 posts, this gets quite resource intensive. So category archives now only have full-text for the last 25 articles; the rest are just excerpted. Likewise, author archives are truncated: full text of the last 10 posts, excerpts for the next 40. The rest, as they say, is history. (Only six Ishbadiddlers have 50+ posts, and the author archive was getting waaay to massive as it was essentially building the entire blog from Day One.) The monthly archives should be functioning. If anyone is trying this at home, the CatEntries plugin does not appear to work in the context of a date-based archive. Oy, that was a headache figuring that out.
As always, any suggestions can be left in comments.
Congratulations -- site maintenance is one of those necessary, thankless, burdensome efforts.
By the way, I like your message on the security code thing; reminds me of "Elephant Man."
Comment #1 :: link :: July 29, 2005 7:09 PM :: homepage
