{"id":848,"date":"2008-09-06T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:44:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:44:47","slug":"adventures_in_u_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Upgrading: MT 4.21 Gotchas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FYI &#8211; There&#8217;s a good list of possible gotchas for the upgrade to MT 4.21 on the <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.movabletype.org\/2008\/08\/known-mt-421-upgrade-issues.html\">movabletype.org forums<\/a>.<br \/>\nAdditionally, it&#8217;s been reported on the MT ProNet that Arvind&#8217;s MT Blogroll plugin (whch I use to generate my hopelessly outdated blogroll at left) has to be completely wiped out or the upgrade will stall.  Arvind has instructions on his site on how to upgrade MT Blogroll to his mew MT 4 plugin, <a href=\"http:\/\/plugins.movalog.com\/link-roller\/install\/\">Linkroller<\/a>.  I&#8217;m going to give that a shot and see what happens before I &#8216;nuke&#8217; my MT Blogroll install.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FYI &#8211; There&#8217;s a good list of possible gotchas for the upgrade to MT 4.21 on the movabletype.org forums. Additionally, it&#8217;s been reported on the MT ProNet that Arvind&#8217;s MT<a href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adventures in Upgrading: MT 4.21 Gotchas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Adventures in Upgrading: MT 4.21 Gotchas - salguod.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adventures in Upgrading: MT 4.21 Gotchas - salguod.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FYI &#8211; There&#8217;s a good list of possible gotchas for the upgrade to MT 4.21 on the movabletype.org forums. Additionally, it&#8217;s been reported on the MT ProNet that Arvind&#8217;s MTRead More Adventures in Upgrading: MT 4.21 Gotchas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"salguod.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-09-06T19:52:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-29T02:44:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Doug Schaefer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@salguod\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Doug Schaefer\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml\",\"name\":\"Adventures in Upgrading: MT 4.21 Gotchas - salguod.net\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-09-06T19:52:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-29T02:44:47+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2237e297e41300051087d8791343043f\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Adventures in Upgrading: MT 4.21 Gotchas\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"salguod.net\",\"description\":\"Stuff I Think Up\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2237e297e41300051087d8791343043f\",\"name\":\"Doug Schaefer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8dde291ac4514740353f4bb9cbd9418?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8dde291ac4514740353f4bb9cbd9418?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Doug Schaefer\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/salguod.net\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/salguod\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/author\/salguod\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Adventures in Upgrading: MT 4.21 Gotchas - salguod.net","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Adventures in Upgrading: MT 4.21 Gotchas - salguod.net","og_description":"FYI &#8211; There&#8217;s a good list of possible gotchas for the upgrade to MT 4.21 on the movabletype.org forums. Additionally, it&#8217;s been reported on the MT ProNet that Arvind&#8217;s MTRead More Adventures in Upgrading: MT 4.21 Gotchas","og_url":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml","og_site_name":"salguod.net","article_published_time":"2008-09-06T19:52:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-05-29T02:44:47+00:00","author":"Doug Schaefer","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@salguod","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Doug Schaefer"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml","url":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml","name":"Adventures in Upgrading: MT 4.21 Gotchas - salguod.net","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2008-09-06T19:52:00+00:00","dateModified":"2021-05-29T02:44:47+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2237e297e41300051087d8791343043f"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_3.shtml#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Adventures in Upgrading: MT 4.21 Gotchas"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/","name":"salguod.net","description":"Stuff I Think Up","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2237e297e41300051087d8791343043f","name":"Doug Schaefer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8dde291ac4514740353f4bb9cbd9418?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8dde291ac4514740353f4bb9cbd9418?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Doug Schaefer"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/salguod.net","https:\/\/twitter.com\/salguod"],"url":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/author\/salguod"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":854,"url":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/adventures_in_u_2.shtml","url_meta":{"origin":848,"position":0},"title":"Adventures in Upgrading: Plugins","author":"Doug Schaefer","date":"September 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm blogging through the upgrade process to MT 4.2. You'll be forgiven if you forgot I was doing that since my last post on it was 2 1\/2 weeks ago. Someday I might get to the actual upgrade. :-P One of the questions anyone reading this series (Heh, like someone\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Salguod.net stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Salguod.net stuff","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/salguod-net-stuff"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":857,"url":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/adventures_in_u_4.shtml","url_meta":{"origin":848,"position":1},"title":"Adventures in Upgrading: The Story Thus Far","author":"Doug Schaefer","date":"October 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my first post since the upgrade. If you're reading this, then the upgrade went well, or at least so far. I had expected more trouble than I got. Thus far, I've upgraded MT and loaded the Right Fields to Custom Fields plugin. The upgrade went smoothly and Chad's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Salguod.net stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Salguod.net stuff","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/salguod-net-stuff"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":846,"url":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/adventures_in_u.shtml","url_meta":{"origin":848,"position":2},"title":"Adventures in Upgrading: How to Do  Fresh Install (I Think)","author":"Doug Schaefer","date":"August 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I mentioned that I was going to blog through my MT 4.2 upgrade experience. This is the second post in that series. Update 10\/09\/2008 - Added instructions on pointing Typekey to your new install. Update 10\/04\/2008 - After some feedback on the MT support forums, I've changed this to separate\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Salguod.net stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Salguod.net stuff","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/salguod-net-stuff"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":856,"url":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/see_you_on_the.shtml","url_meta":{"origin":848,"position":3},"title":"See You on The Other Side","author":"Doug Schaefer","date":"October 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it's time to pull the trigger and upgrade to MT 4.21. Things may get a little wonky while I work through it. Actually, they most certainly will get wonky. Wish me luck. :-D","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Salguod.net stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Salguod.net stuff","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/salguod-net-stuff"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":844,"url":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/adventures_in_u_1.shtml","url_meta":{"origin":848,"position":4},"title":"Adventures in Upgrading: Getting Ready","author":"Doug Schaefer","date":"August 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I mentioned that I was going to blog through my MT 4.2 upgrade experience. This is the first post in that series. The first step in any upgrade is knowing what you're in for. How hard is this going to be? What do I need to know ahead of time?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Salguod.net stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Salguod.net stuff","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/salguod-net-stuff"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1037,"url":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/better_anti-spam.shtml","url_meta":{"origin":848,"position":5},"title":"Better Anti-Spam","author":"Doug Schaefer","date":"July 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The 3 or 4 of you who visit the site regularly only to discover that I still haven't posted anything new may have noticed that the level of spam comments has increased recently. I've been getting maybe half a dozen spam comments a day recently, sometimes less. Not awful, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Salguod.net stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Salguod.net stuff","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/salguod-net-stuff"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}