Upgrading to Movable Type 4 with MTCommentFields »
By now, there's a reasonable chance that if you've wanted to upgrade to the latest release of Movable Type, you've done so. But you may still be waiting. Perhaps you're hoping that your favorite plugin will be updated (there are still a few that haven't been released for MT4). Or maybe you've run into a problem that you can't seem to overcome.
One of the issues that I run into fairly regularly is for people who use the MTCommentFields tag. This tag, originally released in version 3.0D - way back in 2004, for those of you keeping track - was designed so that you wouldn't have to keep up with your comment form. Unfortunately, people like to keep up with their comment form, to move it around, change some wording, add features or just tinker. So it rapidly fell out of favor, and in MT4, it's gone completely.
If you're still using it and you want to upgrade, you'll see a message that reads The MTCommentFields tag is no longer available; please include the Comment Form template module instead. You will be able to rebuild your templates, but you won't be able to accept any new ones.
And naturally, if you're upgrading, you won't have this module to make that happen. To make matters worse, if you're a user of certain versions, even if you try and get rid of the tag, you might still have problems. What do you do? Luckily, it's an easy fix.
