I've finally bitten the bullet and installed Movable Type 3.31 on here. I'd been holding off upgrading until all the plugins I use had been upgraded but it doesn't look like one of my favourites ever will, which is very disappointing. I may have to try to work out how to convert it from BigPAPI to Transformer myself, unfortunately I don't know a lot about how Perl works so it might be too big a job for me. I'd hate to lose the functionality that particular plugin gives me. I'm still waiting on one of the others to be updated, but the author is planning on releasing it soon.

I haven't gotten everything upgraded yet, there are some tweaks still to do but these are mainly behind the scenes. Increasing the size of text entry boxes, adding an Updated On button, adding some quicktag buttons etc. Nothing exciting really... just stuff that makes my life easier as blog owner.

I am also hoping that I will be able to re-enable commenting. After being hit by automated attacks my server was overwhelmed and Perl kept locking up as all the processes were being used by the comment script. Hopefully this is all over now, and maybe I can accept legitimate comments again.

Update: Apparently I can't enable comments yet. No sooner had I allowed comments on this post and my server was hit by a distributed spam attack which disabled Perl completely for hours. Grr!! I HATE SPAMMERS.

I'm going to have to find another way to allow commenting, maybe obfuscating the URL somehow? *sigh* This is most frustrating.

Update 2: That plugin I was talking about before... and not being sure if it would ever get updated. Well it still hasn't, but I had a go at fixing it myself and it appears to be working. All in all it just needed 2 lines changing, not as bad as I first thought!