So, in continuing to stamp on occasional fires in my blogs, Dave N. noticed that one of the WIST quotes we were discussing yesterday was missing.

Odd.

Poked around a bit more.  One that I'd entered in on the same page yesterday was missing from the author (category) archive, too.

After much poking and prodding, I discovered that:

1. Any quote (entry) with a citation (title) that started with a quotation mark was vanishing.
2. I was only seeing ten entries the page, regardless.
3. If I took out the sort-by-title parameter, I still got only ten, but a different ten.

Aha.

Turns out that one of the few significant changes in MT4 was the whole archiving stuff.  Some of the results:

1. If you don't specify otherwise, an archive (e.g., a category archive) will only show the default "show N entries" value for the blog.  Which, in my case, was 10.  When I changed it to 1000, all the quotes showed up, huzzah.
2. The old pagination stuff I had previously didn't get brought over -- so my loooooong archives in my regular blog are not paginated.  That's something I need to fix in the future by using MT's new built-in pagination power.  (See: swapping out for all new templates again.)
3. But the problems I was having with my date (monthly) archives not working has magically been fixed, as has the problem that was in there with the Previous/Next entries at the top.  So that's a win.

And so it goes.

Now, all I need is like two unoccupied days when I can replace the templates and get them cleaned up and looking the way I want, and I'll be in great shape.  I just don't think that's going to happen this month. :-P

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