I really like the "Build All Templates Statically" option on the Templates page, however I really wanted a Build All Templates Dynamically option. I posted a feature request on the subject but I don't think it was taken any further, so I took the matter into my own hands, see the screenshot (click for larger image).

Open up MT/App/CMS.pm and search for the following block of text, line #4842.

} elsif ($dcty eq 'archives') { require MT::Template; my @templates = MT::Template->load({ blog_id => $blog->id }); for my $tmpl (@templates) { $tmpl->build_dynamic($tmpl->type ne 'index'); $tmpl->save(); } } elsif ($dcty eq 'custom') {...

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As the image above shows, $40 (20% of the Dropcash campaign) has been donated to the American Red Cross to help with the victims of Hurricane Katrina. A big Thank You to all the donors of the CustomFields Dropcash campaign that made this possible.

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A very simple but elegant design featuring a dark background with lighter "panes" for the content areas.

Click image for a full size sample. (opens in a separate window)

Black Cherry Coffee Dark Sage Dark Teal Dusty Rose Jade Plum

Posted by The Style Monkey at January 9, 2005 11:24 PM

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With 3.2 came the very nice StyleCatcher plugin that allowed you to easily manage and apply themes or styles to your blogs. This tutorial will show you how to make your repository work Style Catcher. Note, this tutorial won't show you how to create the library javascript that allows you to browse themes, it simply shows you how to make your themes discoverable by StyleCatcher. In this tutorial, I shall use the example of Vicksburg, the default theme with 3.2.

Every style or theme should be in its own folder (with no subfolders) which should contain: • The css stylesheet. • Two thumbnails named thumbnail.gif and thumbnail-large.gif. These two files are used in StyleCatcher as previews of...

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If you have setup a sideblog/linkblog then you will notice that the rss it generates is rather annoying. If you look at the RSS through an aggregator such as Bloglines and you click on the title of the entry, it takes you to the entry permalink. This is fine with most blogs but in sideblogs its rather annoying. I would much prefer being taken to the page in question rather than the entry permalink. To understand what I mean look at MovableBLOG Asides rss file, you will see the link element links to the page he is talking about, click the title it will not take you to the entry permalink. This means that you will need to extract the uri specified in the href tags.

To accomplish this you will...

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At long last I've made some updates to the Style Generator to better fit with Six Apart's standard. This means that you can finally apply the tips discussed in this tutorial to stylesheets created using the style gen. Most of the other changes are mostly on the backend code so that it's easier for me to build on it in the future. The only real change on the frontend is the addition of a splash page that allows you to select the number of columns - as cool as the on-the-fly capability was it was a major pain to support. A big thank you to Six Apart for letting me use their images, I'm a terrible graphics designer!

The biggest feature I am working on right now is the ability to load...

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Matthew writes

I am trying to make the side bar in Movable type to extend to the bottom of the page. I have gotten it to work in IE but not firefox. You can take a look at my site

Quite a few people ask me this question (you can see the problem in the screenshot -- click for larger view), and this problem was fixed in the default templates. It can be combatted in two ways.

CSS

Add the following to your stylesheet

#container:after, .content:after { content: "."; display: block; height: 0; clear: both; overflow: hidden; }

HTML

Alternatively, on every template that you have a sidebar, add the following code just before the end tag of the #container div

<div style="clear:...

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UPDATE: Fixed a bug where the image would only appear when you were logged into MT. Its a one line fix in SCode.pm

Although CAPTCHAs have several problems, there is no denying that catch most (if not all) of the spam. The most popular CAPTCHA generating plugin for Movable Type, SCode, had not been updated in a long time as the author had migrated to Drupal. It still involved hacking and did not integrate with 3.2's new junk/feedback framework. As a result, I took the plugin and did some major re-writing to make it work with 3.2. A run down of the new features: • No Hacking Required - Simply drop the plugin in and enable it to use • More Friendly UI - Previously, you would have to set...

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UPDATE: An updated entry can be found here This is now out dated !

I loved the quicktags available in WordPress. They were just so much more powerful that then four offered within MT. So Carthik pointed my to quicktags the javascript used my WordPress.

So I hacked MT to remove the pathetic little buttons and put these more powerful ones on there - see the screenshot.

You will need two files: •

The Quicktags Javascript - put this file in your StaticWebPath •

edit_entry.tmpl - this file should go in MT_DIR/tmpl/cms/

I've not yet get it to work properly with the Extended Entry, currently it only work with Entry Body. If anyone is able to help me with this I'd appreciate it !

UPDATE: I uploaded another...

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UPDATE

Typepad has moblogging built in but what can you do with MT. There are certain scripts you could setup on your servers. Pop2Blog is one such script, and another is pop3-to-blog. However with these scripts you would need to setup cron jobs to scan your emails and then post to MT.

That's when I found Mfop2

Mfop2 allows you to moblog without setting up any special scripts on your own mail server. To use Mfop2, all you have to do is register some of your blog details and you will be able to post to your blog from your mobile by emailing your blog entry with images attached to mfop2@bastish.net.

Another interesting option is mobileMT

mobileMT is a WAP interface for the MovableType...

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Textile is a ‘Humane Web Text Generator,' created by Dean Allen of Textism. After seeing Textile in action, I decided that I must create a Movable Type plugin that does the same thing.

I came to that decision before Movable Type 2.6 and the custom text filter thing were announced. In fact, seeing Textile spurred me to write to Ben about a way for MT users to have more text formatting choices and the option to select them on a per-entry basis. To my delight, he replied that "it's already in the works."

So here we are a couple of months later. MT 2.6 is in beta (and very near to release)...

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