It took about a half hour to update Radio.root completely, register my serial number again, and set my software preferences and theme back up. Afterward, I shut down Radio, copied my old weblogData.root file over the new one in the Data Files folder, then ran the application. Everything was where I expected it to be, but it took all night for Radio to republish several thousand weblog pages and other files.

While I was tinkering with the site, I turned on the trackback feature and wrote PHP scripts that route comment and trackback URLs to the correct URLs on Pycs.Net, the Radio Community Server clone I've been using as an alternative to UserLand's server.

The reason I needed the PHP scripts was because my Radio install has a new user number granted by UserLand, 128729, that replaces one granted by Pycs.Net, 0000001. Since some of Radio's features are organized by user number, such as the most-visited weblogs report, I wanted a user number more likely to be unique. I'm publishing my weblog with FTP to my own server, so I can change user numbers without changing my site's main URL.

The reinstall appears to have solved my problems (and I don't know yet if trackback worked), though I've undoubtedly created a few new ones. [Workbench] 
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Radio UserLand Kick Start
Roger's Book. If you haven't ordered your copy yet, read this and follow the link to Amazon. It's great that we're going to get some help for Radio. I recently bought a copy of Frontier: A Definitive Guide from an Amazon vendor, mainly to have an easy reference. [house of warwick] 
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Illustrated MT templates
Nice dissection of how templates in MT work. Need this for every blog system including Manila and Radio.
"Tackling Movable Type templates and CSS for the first time can be daunting. The MT default templates contain four kinds of code: CSS, HTML, MT tags, and Javascript.

I'm working on a little project to break it apart in an illustrated way. It's not exactly a Movable Type tutorial, but it does point out where divs are and what the tags look like in code and rendered in the browser.

If you click the images above, the first image shows where the div sections of the MT index template begin and end. The second one breaks apart the code for the blog entry and points to each section in a sample entry. The smaller images below show details for calendar, search and side menus"
(via mediatinker.com) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog] 
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Radio UserLand Kick Start on backups
A new chapter of Radio UserLand Kick Start can be previewed on Workbench: Chapter 9, Backing Up Data.

Though the standard disclaimers apply -- this is a pre-publication draft -- I spent a lot of time trying out Radio's backup procedures, sometimes by necessity when an experiment went awry. At this point, I've destroyed and rebuilt my 850-entry, 1,100-page weblog around a dozen times.
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