It's recently come to my attention that comment notifications are broken in recent versions of Movable Type. I never noticed this because it never affected me (more on why in a minute). After looking into this, it appears that the change was introduced in version 3.14159, when Six Apart made a change to Comments.pm to address the efficiency of comment posting - namely to keep certain processes from executing unless the comment was visible (approved). This change also affects version 3.15 of the software.

As such, this means that if your comment was visible, you would receive a notification. This is often the case with TypeKey or other authentication mechanisms, as the default setting...

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Ask Bjørn Hansen has just announced the launch of GeoURL 2.0. Revamping Joshua Schachter's original applicaiton, the new beta maintains URLs, so the Location plugin for Movable Type should work just fine.

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Question

I want to moderate all comments that are posted to my weblog, even those posted by TypeKey commenters.

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Version 3.2 and higher

Version 3.2 gives you more distinct moderation options for both TypeKey and non-TypeKey comments. Navigate to Settings > Feedback : Comments to locate the Immediately publish comments from setting.

You can choose from the following four options for the setting: • No one

If you choose this option, all submitted comments will be held for moderation, whether or not the commenter used TypeKey. • Trusted commenters only...

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Doug Bowman's made an amazing new set of Movable Type templates available on Stopdesign, simply titled Photo Gallery Templates. The power and flexibility of the Movable Type platform is really shown off in Doug's work, which uses almost twenty (!) plugins, easily imports photos from iPhoto on the Mac, and generates and incredibly elegant, powerful presentation for your photos.

If you're trying to find inspiration for your own Movable Type hacking, are interested in doing justice to your photos using the full power of Movable Type, or just want to marvel at some really creative work, give Doug's writeup a look.

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Joe D'Andrea just posted a useful writeup of the process of creating a new standards-based design for AT&T. There's an extensive list of the techniques and tools used as well, complete with links if you'd like to implement similar tricks yourself.

(Thanks to The Web Standards Project blog for the link.)

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Since anything worth doing on the web is worth doing with Ajax, Joe D'Andrea's written up his technique for using Ajax with TypeKey. It's a clean and simple implementation of the authentication service, and it's found a good home on the Everything TypeKey site as well.

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Localtype - The Reverse Trackback - April 25, 2005 07:11 AMFor several years, I have been part of the IA/Design weblog community. Like a good netizen, first I read all I could on the topics that interested me. Soon, I found a good group of authors (see my sidebar for...

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Cameron Moll's published the first few entries in his new series on mobile web design. Given the amazing work that Cameron does on his Movable Type-powered blog, it's sure to be a useful reference if you'd like to ensure a good experience for people who view content on phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices.

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Know of a great weblog that deserves some recognition? Send in your suggestion for the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards 2004. Though blog awards sometimes elicit divisive arguments in the blog community, there are undeniable promotional benefits to participating in many contests, so if you or one of your clients has a site worth checking out, go give it a plug.

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PublishCommenterIcon

Enables the publishing of the 'nav-commenters.gif' file, which is used to indicate the authentication status of comment posts. The default setting is '1,' which enables the publication of this image file to your weblog's root directory. To disable the publishing of this file, change this setting to '0.'

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If you are creating a group weblog with multiple authors, you might want to customize the look of the Movable Type editing windows with the group's logo. MT3.1 makes this really easy to do. The styles.css file and the images folder that are in the folder you chose for your static files on your server are where you can find the files you will need to adjust.

Changing the logo

The default upper left-hand logo of the editing window looks like this in MT3.x:

The file name is topnav-logo.gif and it can be found in the images folder in your static files folder. You can use an image editing program like Photoshop to swap out the Movable Type logo for that of the group's. Save the image...

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Though these stories always focus on the fact that the raw number of paid bloggers is low, this one's worth reading to note that there actually are a number of people getting paid for the work they do on their blogs. Naturally, one of the easiest transitions bloggers can make to paying work is to become a professional writer, and a few people who've made that transition are interviewed here.

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MTIfRegistrationNotRequired

A conditional tag that will display its contents if a user is not required to sign in to the configured TypeKey authentication system. Alternately the MTElse tag can be used in the MTIfRegistrationRequired tagset.

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Today, we've released more information about TypeKey, which should serve to answer some of the initial questions potential users may have.

While designed first with comment registration in mind, TypeKey will not be limited to usage in Six Apart products. For developers, we plan to offer documentation on integrating TypeKey authentication into your own applications shortly after the service launches.

Look for more information about TypeKey in the coming weeks at typekey.com.

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MTRemoteSignOutLink

Produces a complete link to sign out to the configured TypeKey-enabled authentication system based on the SignOffURL configuration directive.

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MTCommentAuthorIdentity

A link to the author's profile within the configured TypeKey authentication system.

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I've been fiddling with the website, and MT3.2 seems good.

There are a few spots where the documentation is not yet in place, for example in mt-config.cgi the URL is wrong.

Typekey authentication has stopped working, this is something to do with going back to the MT3.2 default templates (though I've now added minor tweaks). Apparently there are some new templates which I don't have. I put in a support request and was told:

... you may not have the new Site Javascript index template. This template should publish a file named mt-site.js in your weblog folder which contains the necessary TypeKey Javascript.

I have yet to find out how to GET that.

Trackbacks to this site are now subject to filtering, and it is no longer pass or dustbin, trackbacks can be held for moderation before they appear, and I can rescue trackbacks from the bitbucket too. This should make the cleanup after a small trip away much easier....

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MTRemoteSignInLink

Produces a complete link to sign in to the configured TypeKey-enabled authentication system based on the SignOnURL configuration directive

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Good news for those of you using TypeKey on sites that aren't in English: The authentication service is now available in Japanese, French, Spanish, Dutch and German. Of course, you can still get the delicious original English flavor as well.

If you're still trying to learn how to use TypeKey on your sites or in your applications, be sure to check out Everything TypeKey, where the TypeKey community has collected a wide variety of sample code, client libraries, and tips and tricks.

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MTCommentFields

Outputs a standard comments form in HTML for all comments and authentication settings. • preview

Setting this attribute to true (1) specifies that the form is being generated for a comment preview. The default is 0 (false).

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MTIfRegistrationRequired

A conditional tag that will display its contents if users must sign in to the configured TypeKey-enabled authentication system.

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