[MTOS-dev] Smarty error after MTOS 4.1 upgrade

[LaRosa Johnson]

I'll be the first to say that there are many plugins that I wish worked with
dynamic publishing. Is there any particular reason I do dynamic over static
publishing? Probably not, but I constantly make many small tweaks to my site
that I used to do exclusively in PHP (due to MT limitations), but that I now
do in MT, and publishing dynamically keeps me from having to rebuild my
entire site whenever I make a small change. Plus, I don't see the reason why
I should have my data stored in a database and then duplicated in a static
html page; to me, it just seems like a waste of space when it can be pulled
dynamically from the database. That's just me though.

I have considered switching to static publishing though, just for the simple
fact that it seems many plugin writers out there are ignoring or choosing
not to take the extra time to make their plugins work for dynamic
publishing.

On Feb 2, 2008 4:36 PM, Dan Wolfgang <dan at danandsherree.com> wrote:

> > I also would argue that dynamic publishing should be one of those "must
> have" features of plugins posted in the future.
>
> I think this sounds great, I really do. From a broad-overview
> point-of-view, dynamic publishing and plugins that work there seems very
> important.
>
> I find, however, that the number of people actually using it is pretty
> small. Those who are typically use it for archives only, where a simple list
> of entries is typical and not the full-blown entry that is much more likely
> to require plugins to achieve a goal. In the end, I don't think it's worth
> my time to write the dynamic-compatible plugin. *I'm* not likely to ever use
> it and--it seems--neither are the majority of users.
>
> Lastly (and perhaps this is just because I've always dealt with MT's
> static publishing), the few times I've helped people having trouble with
> dynamic publishing one of my first questions is "why do you need dynamic
> publishing?" and the solution is normally "optimize static publishing."
>
> >
> Dan
>
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