Thanks to the girlie matters tips and tricks I now have more than 5 comments, pings and entries displayed in each section of MT’s menu by making three small edits to lib/MT/App/CMS.pm (which now means yet another file I need to NOT overwrite when upgrading MT!)

An upgrade to MovableType 2.66 2.661 is now available with some good hacks to stop comment spamming. I’m still getting about 1 a day on average which probably means these hacks won’t stop my spammers, but it should hopefully stop them if I get targeted by the scums.

I’ve upgraded my MT to version 2.65 now which won’t make that much difference to me, but will make the installation a bit more secure. I’d like to find out how to change the $MTVersion tag so that I can change this slightly, mainly so that hackers searching for a vulnerability in a particular version will not get my site. However I can’t find (at a quick glance) where this data is stored.
Update Cheers Neil. The daft thing is that I did a search on all files and it couldn’t find that string.

version 2.65 of MT has been released which fixes a security issue and also includes the anti-spam hack that had to be made a month ago. Looks like I’ll be doing some patching real soon.

Movabletype have issued an official response to the spam bug which echos what most people have said – delete mt-send-entry.cgi but they also provide a fixed version in case this file is needed (which it isn’t on default installations)

According to the MT forums, and zopenews there is a flaw in MT that allows spammers to send loads of rubbish via ms-send-entry.cgi Suggestions are to fix the line or just delete/rename the file

Further to my post about email address’s needing spam protection Neil pointed me in the right direction. Spam_protect=1 needs to be set (it already was) but to avoid displaying email address’s this needs to be combined with show_email=”0″

Grrr – just realised my archives are really messed up. It looks like the import/export format and not what they should look like at all… Now to work out what I need to change!
Update Fixed ! <sigh of relief> I had to create an entry in the Weblog Config for the blog in the archive section. Under the monthly section I created a new filename for the Monthly Backup Template so that it wouldn’t overwrite the standard date based archive. My config screen now looks like this(popup), but with the text actually reading something along the lines of andysmonthbackupfor-<$MTArchiveDateEnd$>.txt

As per Chris’s request, my RSS Feed is now changed to send a complete feed instead of the first 40 odd words. All I had to do was change the line
<description><$MTEntryExcerpt encode_xml=”1″$></description>
to <description><$MTEntryBody encode_xml=”1″$></description> in my template’s.