SignOffURL

Specifies the fully-qualified domain name and path (up to the query paramters) for the lougout URL of the TypeKey-compatible authentication service you wish to use for your weblogs. To enable an alternate authentication service, you also need to define SignOnURL and IdentityURL.

Example: https://www.typekey.com/t/typekey/logout?

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IdentityURL

Specifies the fully-qualified domain name and path (up to the username) for the user profile URL of the TypeKey-compatible authentication service you wish to use for your weblogs. To enable an alternate authentication service, you also need to define SignOnURL and SignOffURL.

Example: http://profile.typekey.com/

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If you've been kicking around the personal web for a few years, you might remember Metababy, a site where anybody could go and create a new page or edit the ones that were already posted. In these times when people know and use wikis frequently, this isn't that revolutionary, but for a site designed to enable personal expression years ago, it helped open a lot of eyes.

As with many similar efforts, MetaBaby succumbed over time to neglect and spam and offensive postings, but the new MetaBaby has just been relaunched with TypeKey support. There's still the opportunity to post offensive things, of course, but it's a much higher barrier for people who'd just want to automate their...

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Part of the reason so many attractive and uniquely-designed sites are published with Movable Type is because designers find the template tag system straightforward and easy to understand for anybody who knows (X)HTML and CSS. But we wanted to encourage even more customization and experimentation with templates in Movable Type 3.2 while still allowing for all the power of the new features being made available.

As a result, Movable Type 3.2 introduces a number of simple, logical template tags for configuring comment and TrackBack submission and presentation. These tags eliminate the need for much of the complicated JavaScript and logical loops used to enable authenticated comments and...

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07.13.2005

Announcing Movable Type 3.2 Beta

Over the past two weeks, we've been telling the world a lot about Movable Type 3.2 and now it's time to show it.

Today, we are releasing the first beta version of Movable Type 3.2 and we encourage everyone to download it and see for themselves.

You can find the details over on the Beta Blog. We hope to see you over there!

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07.05.2005

Intermittent "500 Server Errors" in MT (RESOLVED)

If you are experiencing intermittent "500 Server Errors" while using Movable Type and are using MySQL for your database, we are aware of the cause...

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Yes, it's another anti-spam plugin. I would have called it MT-DSBL 2.0, but the feature set grew beyond the name, so a more generic name was chosen. This is a 2.0 release however… the plugin deserves more seniority than a 1.0 release, since it was built of the carcass that was MT-DSBL 1.1.

The first beta release is now available. Please visit the project page for SpamLookup to download it.

So, what does this thing do? Well, in a nutshell: • Filters inbound comments for all installed weblogs. • Filters inbound TrackBack pings for all installed weblogs. • Checks IP address of sender against DNSBL services....

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11.30.2004

Interview with Nick Bradbury

A good interview with Nick Bradbury of TopStyle and FeedDemon fame, with tips on becoming an independent software vendor:

If you plan to do this for a living, focus on building tools that make peoples lives easier or more interesting, and chances are youll last longer and find your work more fulfilling.

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11.30.2004

More on the MT3 Bible

Rogers Cadenhead talks a bit more about the newly-released Movable Type 3 Bible Desktop Edition, and is very generously giving away five author's copies to people who comment on, or link to, his post...

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As we've just announced, we'll be supporting the new rel="nofollow" attribute for comment and TrackBack links with our platforms.

With the introduction of the new spec, it's worth reviewing the initiative for Professional Network members who'd like an overview of the entire effort. • What is nofollow?

The HTML specification allows a tags for hyperlinks to include a rel attribute. This attribute is used to specify a link type describing the relationship between the document hosting the hyperlink and the document that is the target of the hyperlink. • Is this valid HTML?

Yup. Though the rel attribute has been relatively obscure (it's used in XFN and Technorati's tags, but...

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01: Installation and Upgrade

• Introduction • Choosing the Right Weblog Platform • Finding Perl on your Server...

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For those who aren't using the dynamic publishing feature of Movable Type (see below), experiencing slow rebuild times is not an infrequent complaint especially as the size or complexity of the blog and its templates grows. While there are very good reasons to rebuild, there are no good reasons for it to be painfully slow.

In this essay, we will detail a number of reasons why your rebuild times might be slow and steps you can take to drastically reduce or completely eliminate the time you spend waiting for Movable Type to finish its work.

Upgrade to Movable Type 3

Has anything significant happened to you in the 16 months? Probably so. Well, the same can be said for Movable...

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Given the recent rash of comment spam attacks that are causing significant increases in server load and affecting a wide variety of Movable Type installations, we've republished the following Knowledge Base article on the Professional Network site. Movable Type Knowledge Base articles are typically available to users with paid licenses who have logged in to the " Your Account" link on the Movable Type website, but the following article is available free of charge and does not require a login to view.

Professional Network members have access to the full Movable Type knowledge base as part of the members' license for Movable Type.

Getting Started

Enabling TypeKey on your site...

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You may have noticed that commenters with Typekey identities display a hyperlinked image beside their names: This icon, which is used to signify commenters authenticated via Typekey, is copied to your blog directory when you first publish your blog.

If you like to keep things pretty, you might want to replace the original image (a dark charcoal color... so utilitarian) with one that is color coordinated with your site. Customizing nav-commenters.gif to coordinate with your blog's style is a snap.

How? you ask...

If you want to edit the image yourself, MT's original typekey commenters icon can be found in /path/to/mt/mt-static/images/nav-commenters.gif or, of course, in your...

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We've worked hard to make sure all the configuration settings for your weblogs are more intuitively organized and simplified, while still retaining all the power and control that Movable Type affords.

New in Movable Type 3.2 is a reorganization of weblog configuration into a few weblog settings screens. One of the most notable is the Feedback settings, which govern comments and TrackBacks. At the simplest level, there's a blog-level on/off switch for both comments and TrackBacks, and the options for each have been reduced to cover all the common scenarios for enabling feedback on a blog. You can easily require authentication, make it optional, or not require it at all, and it's...

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Displaying Comments

Problem

You want to display comments in your weblog.

Solution

Use the template tags prefixed with MTComment.

Discussion

The default templates that ship with Movable Type are comment-ready. These templates are set up so that comments appear on both the popup comment window and the individual archive pages.

All of the various options for moderating and managing comments combine to make the default template code and HTML for comments quite extensive and sophisticated. To get you familiar with how comments can be implemented in MT templates we'll look at some...

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A simple standalone TypeKey-like authentication system.

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TKPal is a Movable Type plugin which allows you to charge for content in your Movable Type-powered site using PayPal for payments and TypeKey for authentication.

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The OpenID Server plugin for Movable Type allows you to use your Movable Type installation as an identity server for sites which accept the OpenID decentralized authentication system.

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There's a whole range of new ways to work with and manage your photos in Movable Type. First, if you're using Flickr to manage your photos, MovableTypeFlickrPhotosets will let you fetch a list of your Flickr photosets to include in your weblog.

To work with photos within Movable Type, you'll want to try MT-PhotoGallery. There's a straightforward set of instructions on the plugin page for integrating the system with your existing Movable Type installation.

If you'd rather work more with Movable Type's built-in functionality, you can follow either of two excellent tutorials from Nicholas Findley and Elise Bauer. There's also a list of photoblog tutorials on the Movable Type wiki which...

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This plugin enables the use of any OpenID-compatible site as an authentication service when commenting on a Movable Type blog. Optimized for for Movable Type 3.2, the plugin offers a per-blog preference for displaying the LiveJournal user icon for LiveJournal users.

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Banning A Commenter

Problems

You want to ban a commenter from commenting on a weblog.

Solution

Use the Ban Commenter action on the Comments Listing screen.

Discussion

Occasionally a commenter will abuse a weblog's comments, leaving you no alternative but to ban them from further commenting. In order to identify and ban a commenter from the system, you must be using authentication (i.e., TypeKey).

There are a number of ways in which a commenter can be banned. The most straightforward is to click the Commenters Toolbar button, find the commenter you wish to ban, check the box...

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