Movable Type

You might have noticed that, now, if you scroll to the bottom of the blog or any of the categories, the site is now paginated, making it easier to browse the categories and archives. You have no idea how much of a pain it was to implement this--it required me to set up dynamic publishing, which is a special case on NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, the company that supplies my web hosting. They have a lot of security restrictions in place on their default PHP configuration (PHP Fast Mode).

There are no up-to-date guides out there on how to make this work, so I spent the better part of yesterday toying with my files and reading old documentation, trying to tease out what was still accurate and what wasn't. Here's what I found.