CP5, or Polopoly, has a lot of quarks. Hell, Movable Type has a lot of quarks. I will be using this post to document them as best as I can. This is more for my staff at The BG News, but may be useful for anyone else who is working with CP5.
- If you create a Teaser element, then change the article's copy after you make said Teaser, you must delete the Teaser element and recreate it. The Teaser does not seem to update.
- CP5 handles the way the main RSS and section RSS feeds work very oddly. I will cover this in its own post, and link to it here.
- You cannot use Safari. I have no problem with this as I really dislike it. But a lot of people use Safari. A lot of the functionality of Polopoly works only in Firefox (or IE I assume, but I don't work on a Windows). The latest issue I have found was an editor tried to make edits to an existing article in Safari and when they saved, his changes were not.
- Every night between 9 and 9:30 PM EST there is scheduled server maintenance. This brings the admin interface for CP5 to a screeching halt, or just gives you a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable. This may affect you like it did us this week, as we needed to post some breaking news shortly after 9 PM, and could not.
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