Plugins and the black(list) sheep
This is an archived entry from the Movable Type 3.2 beta test.
Entries from the current beta release (v3.3) can be found here.
As mentioned in the "Getting Started" post, all of the plugins you used to use with MT 3.17 (and really any previous version) should continue to work with this new version of Movable Type. We take great care with our APIs and while additions (like the feedback rating framework) happen suddenly, changes to or removal of functions happen over the course of many, many releases through deprecation.
There are two plugins that we've had reports of that are having problems with MT 3.2: BookQueueToo and MT-Blacklist.
We are currently investigating the problem with BookQueueToo but it seems to manifest itself on rebuild and spits out an error similar to this:
Build error in template 'about': Error intag:
Error reading XML content: Undefined subroutine &XML::Simple::setdocumentlocator called at /user/home/test/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/BookQueueToo/lib/XML/SAX/Base.pm line 1466. ...propagated at lib/MT.pm line 877.
We will get back to you when the MT team and the developer has worked out the problem.
MT-Blacklist's problem, however, was caused entirely by the developer (*ahem*): It looks at the version of the program and quits unless it is 3.1. The reason for this is that people who were running MT v2.x were trying to install the new Blacklist created solely for MT 3 which was causing not only huge problems but massive migraine headaches for the sole developer.
Since MT-Blacklist should run flawlessly with MT 3.2, you can route around the problem by applying the patch found on Jamison's site until I -- errr, I mean, the developer -- gets around to fixing it.
Posted on July 14, 2005 8:15 PM in Announcements
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At least there's a fix. Testing 3.2 without Blacklist is an interesting concept, but one I'd probably let others try first :-).
Posted by: Kevin![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/beta/nav-commenters.gif)
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July 14, 2005 9:25 PM
You haven't checked out SpamLookup yet, have you, Kevin? It was developed by the very talented Brad Choate, who is an MT engineer. His Perl/MT fu is much stronger than mine.
Posted by: Jay Allen![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/beta/nav-commenters.gif)
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July 14, 2005 9:35 PM
I did. It looked awesome, but for some reason wasn't playing nice with my other plugins. It's on the to do list when the next beta of SpamLookup comes out. Last I checked it had gone backwards a release.
I just sent my first bug. It's probably what's causing some of the errors I saw in the other thread...
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July 14, 2005 10:24 PM
Excellent! Thanks for that, we'll take a look at it in the morning. Is the problem you were having with SpamLookup a known issue? If not, you might want to let Brad know about that so that he can make sure to fix it.
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July 14, 2005 10:27 PM
From my testing MT Protect will error out whenever trying to create a Typekey Group or protect an entry.
MT Blogroll's UI looks a little funny but apart from that it works for me.
MT InlineEditor will not work for Inline Editing because of the new format of the login cookie.
Posted by: Arvind![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/beta/nav-commenters.gif)
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July 14, 2005 11:24 PM
It looks like Nat Irons' handy Amputator plugin (http://bumppo.net/projects/amputator/) has a similar problem. On my server, all of the Movable Type CGI files generate "500" errors if Amputator.pl is in the plugins directory.
The resolution is similar to the one for MT-Blacklist. On line 37 of Amputator.pl, just replace this:
<pre>if ($MT::VERSION >= 3) {</pre>...with this:
<pre>if (MT->version_number >= 3) {</pre>Posted by: Grettir![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/beta/nav-commenters.gif)
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July 15, 2005 12:23 AM
I just released the next version of BookQueueToo - it is called Media Manager... however in all the excitement I realised that the name "Media Manager" might already be taken. So I may have to do something about that later. In the meantime, learn how to fix the BQT bug at:
http://www.majordojo.com/projects/MediaManager/archives/2005/07/themostreport.html
Posted by: Byrne Reese![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/beta/nav-commenters.gif)
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July 15, 2005 2:04 AM