If you are using Movable Type default templates, the titles of your entries on the main page of your MT blog are just that - titles. They look pretty but go nowhere. If you want to get from the entry on your main blog page to its individual entry page, you need to click on "Permalink" or "Continue reading".

Setting it up so that the titles of the entries themselves are hyperlinks to the individual entry page is fairly straightforward and requires edits to two templates - your Style Sheet and the Main Index template.

If you are using the default MT3.2 templates

1. The Stylesheet The MT3.2 default stylesheet is a huge file. The last time I printed one out it took 18 pages. It...

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Create yearly calendars with ease.

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A wide variety of calendar/Date related tags.

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MT-Upcoming is a Movable Type plug-in that accesses your event and watchlist information on Upcoming, the social events calendar.

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I had a problem with this on a couple blogs I admin, because we don't post everyday; on one, sometimes there's a month or more between posts. The "Number of Days Displayed" setting on the Weblog Configuration page will give you the last "x" number of calendar days - and since there is such a great gap between posts on this blog, it didn't take long before there weren't any posts on the index at all.

There are two ways to go about this. You can go for a set number of posts on your front page (i.e. - always have 10 posts displayed) or you can get the last 7 non-consecutive days worth of posts.

If you want a set number, on your index template change

<MTEntries> into <MTEntries...

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This section of the appendix details all Movable Type tags that can be used in your templates to publish content from your weblogs and system. More information on editing templates and using these tags can be found in Chapter 3: Templates and Layout.

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We have released a new version of Movable Type, version 1.4. Existing users of versions 1.0-1.31 should use the upgrade distribution to update their MT installation, and should follow the upgrade instructions.

In addition to bug fixes and improvements to general stability, this release adds the following features: • New and improved default templates and styles ( more information) • Tags to produce a customizable calendar display ( more information) • Tags to link to the next and previous archives ( more information) • Editable comment previews • The ability to customize the comment error page ( more information) • New global tag attribute filters: encode_js, zero_pad, space_pad,...

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After the success of the first event earlier this year, the Blog Business Summit is returning, this time in San Francisco. Scheduled for August 17-19, the event promises a full calendar of practical, business-centric conversation about the benefits of blogging.

If you're interested, you can register as an early bird, or submit a session proposal if you've got an idea that should be covered.

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Upcoming.org is a popular web-based events-tracking service, and Andy Baio, the site's creator, has just announced a number of significant new features.

In addition to expanding the types of events that can be entered, Upcoming now supports tags, a powerful REST API, a better design, and reminders by email or SMS.

These new features make it a much more powerful platform, and it should be possible to do fairly straightforward integration with TypeLists or a weblog calendar with the new API. We'll keep our eyes open for creative uses that connect with weblog platforms.

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Ajax Archive Drop Downs

In this thread, Gary highlighted how to have drop downs of archives that basically redirected to the appropriate page once an archive was chosen. With this tutorial, I'll take that one step further and use AJAX such that when you...

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Yearly Archives

One feature I find lacking in MT is yearly archives. A yearly archive basically is just a page of twelve calendars - one for each month of the year - see mine in action here with permalinks to the days....

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MTCalendarWeekHeader

A conditional tag that will display its contents before a calendar week is started.

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MTCalendarWeekFooter

A conditional tag that will display its contents before a calendar week is ended.

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Upcoming.org, the popular web-based events calendar, has been growing by leaps and bounds lately, and the latest additions include related tags, new client libraries, and a Movable Type plugin.

The plugin gives Movable Type users easy access to watchlists, search results, and events, all available as simple template tags. It's exciting to see such robust features becoming available just a few weeks after the launch of the new suite of web services. If you want to build on the services yourself, you can check out the Upcoming.org Community Help wiki, which includes a section for developer documentation.

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MTCalendarCellNumber

The number of the "cell" in the calendar, beginning with 1. The count begins with the first cell regardless of whether a day of the month falls on it.

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MTCalendarIfBlank

A conditional tag that will display its contents if the current calendar cell is for a day in another month.

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I finally got my copy of Hacking Movable Type and finished reading it last night. Written by the biggest names in the Movable Type community, the 300 pages of Movable Type goodness guide you through getting the most out of Movable Type and really pushing what it can do with detailed tutorials to setup photo and moblogs and event calendars.

It walks you through using all the APIs available in MT including XMLRPC, Atom, Perl and PHP and provides detailed examples that are very easy to understand. One of the best parts of the book, I feel, is the plugin walkthrough which is a far better guide than the current plugin docs. It literally holds your hand showing you what is possible and if I...

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Noted usability maven Jakob Nielsen, long a subject of conversation and critique by bloggers, finally returns the favor with a top ten list of design suggestions for bloggers. Titled " Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes", the latest Alertbox offers a number of simple and useful specific items to review.

For most Professional Network members, a lot of this is a review of practices we're already familiar with, but it's worth taking a closer look at some of the suggestions. • No author biography and no author photo: When we launched TypePad two years ago, one of the first items we added was support for an "About" page and an author photo. If you're making a...

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With Ryan Holsten and Michael Krisher

The year 2000 came and went. Where did design go? As sad as it sounds, not terribly far. It was a year of trendiness, inspiration, imitation, and the imitation of inspired trendiness. What we can take away from the past year in digital design is the knowledge that the new medium is still deep in its early discovery phase.

Y2K (for lack of a shorter term) was going to change everything. Flying cars, artificial intelligence, talking toasters – this was our supposed fate. So where's our Jetsons lifestyle? Maybe Y3K would have been a more practical projection!

It's 11 p.m. Does your Mom know where you are?

The web is now recognized as...

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3.2 (2005.08.25)

Major Features

• New dead-simple AJAX-powered installation/upgrade process (see screencast demo) which replaces mt-load.cgi and all mt-upgrade* scripts. Also eliminated the upgrade distribution since only the config file would be different. • Combined mt.cfg and mt-db-pass.cgi into mt-config.cgi. Shipping as mt-config.cgi-original so as to prevent overwriting when upgrading. • Introduced the new System Overview section which allows administrators to configure and manage aspects of the system across all weblogs • Introduced a plugin-based feedback rating framework which scores comments and TrackBacks upon submission on a scale from -10 (least desirable) to 10 (most desirable)...

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What are web documents made of, anyway? Sugar, spice, and everything nice?

In fact, they're nothing more than Source. For all of the inspiration, thought, and sweat that might go into a page, it is merely a mess of characters that happens to contain a lot of brackets.

After five and a half years of actively building pages, it's occurring to me that a lot of developers haven't figured this out.

What I see is not what they get.

Is this the anguished moaning of an old fart? It certainly is.

As with the plaintive cries uttered by all old farts, this one also contains a nugget of wisdom: while at first you may succeed by the power vested in your tools, you...

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