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Does anyone actually know how to use Movable Type's dynamic content feature? My stabs at it have brought me nothing but anxiety.

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My suggestion is one you probably don't want to hear. Switch to Wordpress. It rules all over MT.

I'm not averse to that notion, but is converting a headache? I'm unfamiliar with non-MT weblog engines.

It was a snap for me, although there were some hiccoughs with the date formatting on the pre-MT entries I imported. It's not like anyone looks at archives anyway.

Wordpress is open-source, has tons of plugins and is extremely user-friendly. Once you get used to the interface [which doesn't take long] you'll be quite comfortable.

The incipient panic of learning new syntax coupled with the basic undesirability of MT's dynamic content options moved me to avail of a kludge involving scheduled cron jobs on my server. Not that I knew what a cron job even was until yesterday, but that's what customer support is for.

Yeah, whenever I see the word "cron job" I get an inexplicable image of Tetsuo: The Iron Man in my head.

It's also likely something a certain Canadian director named David receives every now and then from a starlet on one of his sets.

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