{"id":2376,"date":"2009-03-25T13:34:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T17:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/movable_type_ma_1\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T17:34:24","slug":"movable_type_ma_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2009\/03\/movable_type_ma_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Movable Type Makes Me Feel Like An Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I reflect on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.com\/\">Movable Type<\/a> platform, primarily when I want to change something on this site.<br \/>\nThe software works well enough, but it seems I end up banging my head against the desk every time I want to modify anything.  Why?  Because I have the hardest time figuring out how to do it.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m computer illiterate (though I mostly am).  It&#8217;s primarily because they don&#8217;t do a very good job of providing instructions.  Or if they do, they&#8217;re difficult to find.<br \/>\nThe latest example: a couple days ago it came to my attention that it would be neat to add the <a href=\"http:\/\/plugins.movabletype.org\/action-streams\/\">Action Streams<\/a> feature to my blog, since I do things on Twitter and Facebook.  It took me at least an hour to figure out if I needed to install that plug in, or if it was already included in the Movable Type version I have installed.  Then it took me more time and Googling to find where the set up page is where you help Movable Type find what feeds you want.  But apparently the default Facebook stream doesn&#8217;t work properly, so I&#8217;m messing around with yet another plug in to fix that.<br \/>\nIf I ever get that much sorted out, I&#8217;ve got to find how to fit in in the sidebar template.  (Currently you can see that it&#8217;s messed up).<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t understand widgets, or computer code, but I can usually follow step-by-step instructions.  If only I could find some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2009\/03\/movable_type_ma_1\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Movable Type Makes Me Feel Like An Idiot\"><p>Every once in a while I reflect on the Movable Type platform, primarily when I want to change something on this site. The software works well enough, but it seems I end up banging my head against the desk every time I want to modify anything. Why? Because I have the hardest time figuring out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}