With the release of Movable Type 3.14, a lot of people are revisiting the topic of comment spam and offering their opinions. I talked to eWeek's Matt Hicks for their story Movable Type Fixing Bug as Spam Clogs Blogs, and eWeek also has some good discussion over on Sean Gallagher's blog about the tactics that can be used. Meanwhile, Tim Appnel posted Freedom is Slavery on his O'Reilly blog, as an overview of the fact that all comment options on the web are essentially a tradeoff between openness and accountability.

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The Better File Uploader plugin for Movable Type has been updated to version 1.06. This release fixes a small bug: The "enable easier photo gallery creation mode" checkbox wouldn't actually disable that mode. The option will now correctly be disabled if the button is unchecked, removing the For Photo Gallery button from the file upload screen.

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We have released version 1.1 of Movable Type. Existing users should use the upgrade distribution to update their MT installation, and should follow the new upgrade instructions.

New users should download the full distribution after agreeing to the license agreement.

The new release provides some bug fixes as well as some new features; read through the changelog for a full list, or take a look at an abbreviated list of features here.

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Ajaxify: Search Suggestions

The second plugin in the pluginset known as Ajaxify, this plugin adds a search suggestion feature to the Quicksearch box at the top when you search for entries, comments or trackback. There's very little to talk about this plugin but...

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Posted on 08/30/2005 | Permalink | Comments (9)

Ajaxify: EnhancedEntryEditing

UPDATE: EnhancedEntryEditing has been bumped up to v1.01 to fix a bug where popup windows wouldn't disappear after you were done with them. Grab the update, you only need to upload EnhancedEntryEditing.pl Ajaxify is a series of BigPAPI...

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There is a bug in the 3 column version of Panes so I'm taking it down until I get it sorted out. The links in the left sidebar show up as links in Firefox but aren't active for some reason. It works perfectly in IE, which is a first for me. The 2 column versions are not affected.

UPDATE : Fixed it, and the corrected files have been uploaded.

Posted by The Style Monkey at January 11, 2005 02:42 PM

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Movable Type version 2.1 is now available to download.

Primarly a maintenance release, 2.1 also includes these features: • The export mechanism now exports your Post Status, Allow Comments, and Convert Breaks values for each entry, and the import mechanism will import them. This means that when you use export-import to transfer data, this metadata will not get lost in the transfer. • Added the ability to rebuild one index template at a time. ( More information) • Big rebuilding speedup if you use the <$MTEntryCategory$> tag. • Added Google API hook for search and similar search in <MTGoogleSearch>. ( More information) • Now supports three metaWeblog methods: newPost,...

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03.11.2002

2.0 Release Dates

The release of version 2.0 of Movable Type is around the corner. Progress has been slowed down as of late, because we moved, and we are now in Austin, TX for SXSW. But on our return--or shortly thereafter--we plan to launch version 2.0. Specifically, the release will be sometime between March 15 and March 20.

If you have a question to us pending at the moment, please bear with us, as we don't have a lot of time to check email.

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For those using the default template style (Georgia Blue) included with Movable Type, you might be interested to know that we do provide Other Styles that can be easily swapped in to replace the default style.

And as you may already know, we are writing two chapters on Movable Type for an O'Reilly book, probably called either Weblogging Essentials or Practical Blogging. Look for it in September.

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Thanks to Robmonster for pointing out that the sidebar links in the newest style, Taffy, were not clickable in Opera. This bug affected all 3 versions of the style.

It is fixed now. If you are using any Taffy flavor or know someone who is, please get/have them get the new CSS file. That's the only file that needs to be updated.

Guess I'll have to start checking the new styles in all 3 browsers from now on.

Posted by The Style Monkey at March 2, 2005 09:17 PM

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After finishing up the last few bits of code for Workflow last night, I am freezing the feature list and only committing bug fixes to the trunk now. I released the first real release candidate to the testers last night, and in a couple weeks time, there should be a nicely polished official release of Workflow 1.0 for Movable Type 3.1 or later.

The commercial version will be made available as soon as the I stamp the "official release" label on the code. A version for personal use will be made available when the Dropcash campaign is completed.

I am very excited to get this out the door. I think this is going to be big.

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The Email Whitelister plugin has been updated to v1.01 to fix several bugs faced by people.

Also due to popular demand, I've released the Email Blacklister plugin which functions exactly like the Whitelister except it junks comments if the email address entered matches one on the blacklist. Currently the plugin is fairly basic and doesn't allow you to enter any wildcard or regex values. A future version will hopefully contain such functionality.

Happy antispamming!

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Blog Selective Hacks

One of the biggest problems of simple hacks to the system is that they occur system wide, e.g. if you hacked the entry page to specify a default category, that category would become the default for all blogs on the...

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Posted on 07/30/2005 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Feedback during Power Editing

Many people have asked me how to display the status of comments and trackbacks on the power edit entries screen. This hack will guide you through the process of adding two fields, as shown by the screenshot. One is...

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I've put up a page listing MT resources provided by users of the system. This list is in no way comprehensive, but rather a work in progress - if you have a resource to suggest, then please contact us. Please note that I will also be setting up another page that contains tutorials that do not required any system code modifications or additional scripting.

Version 2.2 introduced another promising feature - plugins. (More info)

We're quite pleased to see that two Movable Type plugins have already been developed: MTWordCount and RSSFeed. Links to their development pages can be found on the external resources page. Keep an eye on this page for additional plugins as...

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Development on MT version 2.0 is going smoothly and we're looking at a early March release. Can you believe it's almost February?

A list of definite 2.0 features: • Multiple category support: The ability to assign multiple categories per entry • Multiple archive template per archive type • Interface modifications, application navigation and icon improvements based on findings from professional usability testing • Power edit screen: Apply title, category or author changes to multiple entries -- using one screen and all at once • More sorting options for the MTEntries tag: alphabetical by title, most recently commented-on, ascending and descending chronologically • Mail this entry • IP banning for comments...

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0.05 (2001.09.30)

• Added mt-import.cgi, which imports blog entries from either Blogger or Greymatter (or, for that matter, any system that can get the entries into the right format) into Movable Type. Also added an import interface through the main Movable Type interface, and docs for importing to the manual. • Fixed bug with MTDateHeader contents actually appearing before the start of the <MTEntries> contents, each time through the loop. (Daniel Talsky) • Added a ``Convert paragraph breaks'' option to specify whether paragraphs should be enclosed...

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A reminder to those of you working away, the Plug In to Movable Type 3.0 developer's contest deadline for submissions is just days away, with entries due by 11:59 PM Pacific time on Tuesday July 6. There's $20,000 in prizes that will soon be in the hands of some lucky developers, and an esteemed panel of judges is awaiting your submission.

If you're still coding away at the last minute, you'll want to review our developer resources as well as the explanation which clarifies what's considered a plugin. In short, any application or feature built on top of Movable Type counts, and you can use whatever tools you'd like, with an eye towards the judging criteria which will be used....

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MT Protect 1.2

UPDATE: Version 1.21 has been released that fixes the password protection bug under static publishing. Please download the new version and re-enable protection on all your blogs. MT Protect is a plugin that allows you to easily protect entries so...

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Posted on 09/03/2005 | Permalink | Comments (6)

MT Protect 1.1

Hot on the heels of v1.0, here's version 1.1. The only new feature is the availability of dynamic tags, i.e. those of you that wanted to use MT Protect on dynamic templates now can! Download MT-Protect_1.1.zip and follow the installation...

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Question

Is the price listed for a license a one-time fee, or is there a recurring or renewal fee after a certain period of time?

Answer

The price is a one-time payment for that license and for that release version of Movable Type. Updates within the same release version number are free while you hold the license; upgrades can be purchased at a discounted cost1.

An "Update" of the product is defined as that which adds minor functionality enhancements or any bug fix to the current version. This class of release is identified by the...

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Movable Type is the premier weblog publishing platform for businesses, organizations, developers, and web designers. Powerful customization gives you control over everything you publish and the elegant interface keeps things simple and clear.

Features

• Unlimited Blogging

Movable Type offers the ability to publish an unlimited number of blogs quickly and easily through a single installation of the application. And the platform supports posting by as many authors as you need, with no limit on the numbers of entries, comments, or TrackBacks the system supports. • Powerful management...

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I'm quite excited about this release because the featureset has been requested several times in the MT Support forums. I've created a new drop cash campaign. As with the previous one, once the target is met I'll release the plugin, and as with the previous one donors get priorty support. I have talked about the new release on the campaign page but in case you don't want to read, I've reproduced it here:

MT Protect is a plugin that allows you to protect entries and blogs (new to 1.0) in two main ways, password and Typekey protection. The former uses a simple password while the latter verifies the reader's identity.

1.0 also boasts several new features including Typekey groups, which...

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