Testing Dan Wolfgang's Better File Uploader 2.2 plugin for Movable Type 4

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Testing Dan Wolfgang's Better File Uploader 2.2 plugin for Movable Type 4

Once again Michele Neylon comes to the rescue by blogging about another feature of Movable Type 4 that I have been too busy to read the posts on Pronet about: Better File Uploader 2.2 for Movable Type 4 by Dan Wolfgang.

Better File Uploader really is better, instead of uploading 1 image at a time, I was able to upload all of these images from the last couple of weeks in one screen. Even better, I was able to set attributes, preview the image, and have the plugin do all the work to make Lightbox work in the same UI screen. Thank you, Dan for saving 15 minutes or more out of my life. You rock.

Using Movable Type 3.x for photo blogs and moblogging was difficult at best. Now with MT4's kickass atom connection with Nokia's Lifeblog on my N95 and Dan's Better File Uploader, Movable Type is once again my friend. Yeah.

by Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen on Thu September 20, 2007 1:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (3) | tech + web dev , writing + blogs

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3 Comments

On September 20, 2007 4:44 PM, Michele Neylon

said:

I'm happy to see that someone's reading that blog :)

Michele

On September 20, 2007 11:47 PM, Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen

said:

Michele,

Keep up the blogging. I read your MT 4 blog and enjoy it.

smiles, jen ;o)

On September 26, 2007 6:50 AM, Dan Wolfgang

said:

Glad to hear you're enjoying BFU!

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