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I find myself wondering about this, not only because Problogger asked about it way back when, but because I'm sitting here looking at this site.  One of the features of WordPress is that you can have multiple index pages.  Movable Type doesn't do that out of the box but it's a two second fix with Alden Bates' Paged Archives plugin, a plugin that that I've blogged about before.  If you check out the main index page for this site, you should see the links near the bottom of the content column.

It's not a big change.  I mean we already use category pages as well as monthly ones.  I also have a complete post list, something that WordPress doesn't do out of the box.  I did a test of 5 Posts on the front page instead of the normal 10 but quickly changed it back.  I hate it when the sidebar is longer than the content.  You're usually stuck with that on individual post pages unless you normally write a bloody book each and every post.

The image is from Sue's post about Blogging Tips with EDUBlogs.  It came up when I did a few keyword searches for an images to use on this post.  Maybe we can get her to do an article on the subject.

For a while now, I've been having problems with getting trackbacks sent out of this blog. (Mostly to Wordpress blogs using Akismet I've noticed but that's besides the point.) 

I did note a number of times I received a "403 Throttled" error within my activity logs.  A quick google search pulls up this article on Richard Green's site on How to fix "403 Throttled" errors for trackback pings in movable type.

Richard tells us to add in the settings OneHourMaxPings and OneDayMaxPings to your site's /mt/mt-config.cgi file. (I note that as SixApart's docs don't actually say where to put those settings.) I've gone ahead and placed both lines in my config settings and saved the files.

...And watched the number of spam trackbacks go skyhigh.

Oh well.  At least my trackbacks are going out now.