Results
If the result list is too large, please consider these hints
- Reduce the number of websites.
- Add more keywords.
- Use quotes for building terms from keywords. For example, the phrase banner image searches for all articles containing both words. However, "banner image" searches for the exact two-word phrase.
Movable Type Weblog, Tutorials, 29 KB, 1997 words
It is a common scenario to have a list of entries sorted by date of publication. As this list may be rather long, it is reasonable to group entries and mark each group with a distinct group header. If you want to group by day, you can use the MTDateHeader tag for this task. However, what can be done, if you prefer to group by months?
An example
Suppose you have a couple of entries. Then you might want to create a structured list as follows:
Jan 16th, 2005 - First entry from Jan 16th, 2005 - Second entry from Jan 16th, 2005 - Third entry from Jan 16th, 2005 Jan 20th, 2005 - First entry from Jan 20th, 2005 - Second entry from Jan 20th, 2005 Feb 3rd, 2005 - First entry from...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 39 KB, 3186 words
There are two methods to create a random entry, pulled from your weblog database (if you aren't using dynamic publishing). The easiest is David Raynes' MTRandomEntries plugin. However, MTRandomEntries generates a random entry only when you rebuild the page on which the MTRandomEntry code is located. If you want a random entry to be generated each time the page is refreshed in a browser, you can do that with a PHP script that pulls the data from your MySQL database. For this method to work your blog needs to be PHP enabled and you need to be using a MySQL database.
This tutorial will outline variations of a PHP script you can use to generate random entries, similar to what can be seen...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 27 KB, 828 words
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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Staggernation, Plugins, 15 KB, 1392 words
This Movable Type plugin implements a set of template tags for displaying text in multiple columns. Your text will be broken up into approximately equal portions, and the HTML formatting you specify (i.e. a table cell) will be repeated once for each portion.
Installation
To install the Columnize plugin, upload the file Columnize.pl to the plugins directory within your Movable Type directory. If you do not already have a plugins directory, create one before uploading the file. For more information about Movable Type plugins, see the documentation.
Contact
Please address questions, comments, bug reports, feature requests, interesting usage examples, etc., to mtplugins [AT] staggern...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 29 KB, 540 words
A container tag representing a calendar month that lists a single calendar "cell" in the calendar display.
Attributes: • month - An optional attribute that specifies the calendar month and year the tagset is to generate. The value must be in YYYYMM format.
The month attribute also recognizes two special values. Given a value of "last," the calendar will be generated for the previous month from the current date. Using a value of "this" will generate a calendar for the current month.
The default behavior is to generate a monthly calendar based on the archive in context. When used in the context of an...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 35 KB, 2142 words
2.5 (2002.10.08)
• Localization: the MT interface can be available in multiple languages, on a per-author setting. • Integrated Jay Allen's mt-search (Thanks, Jay!). We've made the following changes from version 1.31b: • Rewrote ``new comments search'' to make it more scalable (using recently_commented_on functionality) • Added a search log through the Activity Log. • Added search request throttling, to help against denial of service attacks. • Merged mt-search.cfg directives into mt.cfg....
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A List Apart, Tutorials, 16 KB, 1483 words
We like shadows. We enjoy making them drop and we love CSS and standards, so we wrote CSS Drop Shadows. The little voice in our head approved of it. We thought that was the end of it.
We thought wrong.
The internet being the kind of medium it is, minutes after the publication of the article, we started receiving comments, queries and suggestions for improvements. Most notable among the latter was Phil Baines' method for keeping the markup simple when dealing with paragraph drop shadows. We are indebted to him.
The most complained-about shortcoming of the technique turned out to be the sharp top and left edges of the shadow, which, although generally acceptable, are unlike...
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Staggernation, Plugins, 27 KB, 2818 words
This Movable Type plugin implements a set of template tags for retrieving data in XML format and displaying the data on your MT-generated pages. It's basically a Movable Type interface to the extremely handy XML::Simple Perl module. The plugin will work with any well-formed XML document that can be retrieved via an HTTP GET request.
The GetXML plugin is extremely generalized, and to use it you'll have to understand the structure of the XML data you want to work with. There are specific MT plugins available for certain particular types of XML data, such as RSS feeds, Amazon content, and weather forecasts. If there's a specific plugin out there for the XML resource you're interested in, by...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 33 KB, 1722 words
Categories provide an alternate means to the weblog's traditional chronological form of organizing entries. Movable Type allows you to enter a list of categories using a variety of methods and assign one or more to each of your entries. You can use MT's categorization facilities to group related entries despite chronology or simply as a means of filtering entry listings in the CMS more easily.
Each entry can be assigned one primary category and any number of secondary categories. The primary category is used when you wish to display information about just one of the categories to which an entry is...
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A List Apart, Tutorials, 18 KB, 1895 words
In ALA Issue 126, Paul Sowden famously introduced the joys of alternate Style Sheets per W3C specs. Not content to elucidate theory, Sowden devised a compliant Style Sheet Switcher built with a few lines of JavaScript, and presented it to ALA's readers and the entire design / development community as an Open Source gift.
That was cool – really neat actually – and fit perfectly into the vision of an accessible web. When the article broke, I was building a new site and wanted to include this gadget, but I faced two problems: • I'm incapable of directly copying someone else's code. • I had also had the idea rumbling about in my head of writing my...
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Staggernation, Plugins, 34 KB, 3553 words
This Movable Type plugin implements a set of template tags related to calendar dates.
Note: The MTDaylightOrStandard tag, which was part of earlier versions of this plugin, is now part of its own plugin.
Required Modules
The DateTags code relies heavily on the Date::Calc Perl module. Depending on your or your ISP's installation, this may already be present on your system. To check whether Date::Calc is installed, open a shell connection to the host on which you're running Movable Type, and type: perl -e 'use Date::Calc'
Hit Enter. If this prints nothing, the module is installed. If it prints an error message, you'll need to install Date::Calc. (The MTIfDaysOfMonth and MTBirthstone tags do not require Date::Calc, so you should be able to use those without the module installed.)...
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Movable Type Weblog, Tutorials, 18 KB, 607 words
Question
I have a couple of categories. I preferred if entries belonging to one category were styled in a different way than entries belonging to another category. Can I have per category templates?
Answer
Movable Type does not allow this right out of the box. However, there are a couple of ways for achieving this behavior.
You can use the Supplemental Category Tags. This is a collection of several category-related tags. Among others, the collection also contains the »MTIfCategory« and »MTIfPrimaryCategory« tags for creating a condition based on an entry's category.
On MT Extensions, Per Category Templates you can read a tip about how to use the...
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Staggernation, Plugins, 29 KB, 3608 words
Many Movable Type users have wished for the ability to define additional custom fields for entries. A future version of MT may include such functionality. This plugin is a stopgap measure until we have a version of Movable Type that allows custom fields. It lets you define custom fields on a per-weblog basis, by creating one or more SQL tables to store the additional data (this plugin has been designed to work only when using MySQL as your MT backend; see below for more on this).
Some users have managed to add custom fields to their copies of Movable Type by modifying the field definitions within MT. See this page and this thread and this thread. However, this approach has several...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 67 KB, 5029 words
Weblogs are not just a one-way medium for publishing. With the use of a singular, often conversational voice, enhanced by the loosely coupled nature of the Internet and lightweight syndication formats, weblogs are akin to conversations, regardless of the size and makeup of the audience. "A" writes about something on their mind -- an experience, the news, or a project's status. "B" reads it and expresses their take. "C" finds both posts interesting and notes something A and B has not mentioned and so on.
Not everyone has a weblog (sadly) and not everyone wants to make a post to their weblog for everything...
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Staggernation, Plugins, 45 KB, 4783 words
This Movable Type plugin implements a set of template tags for collecting information from specified HTML tags in your entries, and collating and displaying that information. This lets you enhance your MT-based pages in a variety of ways. For example, you could: • Display footnotes for the links or images that appear within each entry. The StripTags plugin could also do this; since this plugin can do everything StripTags can do and much more, StripTags is superseded by Collect and will no longer be updated. See the Usage Examples section, below, for some examples of how to duplicate the functionality of StripTags with Collect. • Generate a "Recent Links" listing to display in your sidebar. • Create "by citation" or "by quotation" archives, similar to the ones Mark Pilgrim has on...
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