Another change, after some reading and experimentation. I installed partial dynamic publishing for archive posts this weekend. I had to run at it twice. It involves creating an .htaccess file and installing it on the server, and customizing some lines in it, creating a new directory on the server and changing some settings MT. The first time I omitted some slashes in some path names in the .htaccess. Once again, the MT documentation was right - just not clear.
The article about the benefits and drawbacks of dynamic publishing at Learning Movable Type may be out of date. It warn that plugins often involve Perlscripts (and I still can't use the word Perl.) which may not run in the dynamic environment. One plugin generated a Smarty error - so I removed it. The important ones, like Spamlookup, are written for php and run under Dynamic publishing. I didn't have a lot of plugins and the one that didn't work has been superceded by newer MT tags, so I am not worried about it.
It makes rebuilding of the blog so much faster, which is convenient when I get into design changes, changing category names and all the other changes that show up on the published page. Rebuilding all the individual entries took a couple of minutes, and it was just annoying.
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