I've spent the last few days upgrading my site to Movable Type 4.01. It wasn't as daunting as I first thought, but it did take a long time because I have 8 blogs on this site. That meant going through the templates on each blog to see what was and wasn't compatible with the new version. I had to uninstall several plugins, upgrade several others, and installed quite a few of the newer ones that have been developed just for this version.
I changed all the comment forms to take advantage of the new MT4 commenting features. I read a great article by Tami called Retrofit Your MT3.x Templates With New MT4 Comments that was the clincher for the upgrade. After reading all I could about upgrading (instead of a clean install), and was satisfied that my pages wouldn't be changed in any way, I took the plunge.
Uploading everything to the server and weeding out the obsolete files was a slow process. Movabletype.org has a section explaining the changes in MT4 and a list of the plugins to be removed in the upgrade guide. There's another great article about upgrading your MT3 templates but I preferred to keep my old look and just change a few bits and pieces.
There's a couple of formatting issues that I need to look at on Toni's Corner of the World, these templates are older than the rest of the blogs, going back to version 3.1, and with 3.2 the templates got a major overhaul and many of the div names changed. Adding the new commenting features turned out to be quite tricky because I couldn't just cut and paste, and I've lost the formatting on the comment forms. It's was 1:30 am last night and I couldn't get my head around the stylesheet so have had to leave till I can think straight.
It's been a long couple of days but I've been putting this off for a while and now it's done.
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