Question

When I try to log into Your Account, I get an error message that says "Your User Record Could Not Be Found".

Answer

A Movable Type account will not exist for you until you download a 3.x license using your registered TypeKey name. You must first select a license from our Pricing page and then log in with the TypeKey username when prompted. Downloading the license is what creates the account in our system.

Paid Licenses

If you paid for a supported license, you'll need to use the order number link from your email receipt to...

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01.18.2005

Movable Type 'nofollow' plugin

Today we are pleased to announce our full support for the rel="nofollow" attribute to hyperlinks introduced to address the main cause of weblog spam: the payoff of higher placement in search engine results.

This initiative, with announced support from Google, Yahoo, MSN (and surely more to come), will direct search engines to ignore links with this attribute set for the purposes of spidering or increasing search engine relevance or ranking.

For current users of Movable Type (note: this plugin is included by default starting with version 3.16), this support is implemented as a simple plugin ( zip [4K], tar/gzip [3K]-- tested on MT 3.x and MT 2.661). For most users enabling "nofollow" support involves placing a single file in your plugins directory. All links submitted by external users in comments and TrackBacks will then be modifed to add the...

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Update April 9, 2005: Brad Choate has released a new anti-spam plugin called SpamLookup. Jay Allen, the creator of MT-Blacklist recommends SpamLookup over MT-Blacklist.

Spammers have discovered Trackback and have recently been leaving their trail of unwelcome links all over the blogosphere. To get a sense of what we are up against, read The Register's interview with a link spammer. Listed here are some defensive measures you can take.

MT-Blacklist

As with comment spam, your first recourse is Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist. The blacklist will help you delete the trackbacks and ban the URLs the spammers leave. Note that if you are using MT2.661 and MT-Blacklist 1.65, Jay has special instructions for deleting trackback spam pings....

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2.2 (2002.06.26)

• Added TrackBack, a peer-to-peer framework for communication between weblogs. Can track cross-weblog conversations/discussions, provides remote content repositories. Has password protection, IP banning, automatic RSS output, and email notification. • Added MySQL backend support. • Added the <$MTBlogRelativeURL$> tag to produce a relative URL to your main blog. • Added <link> tag navigation (prev, next, start) to Individual and Date-based archive templates. Thanks to Mark Pilgrim. • Strip HTML from author, email, and...

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We'll be starting the Movable Type 3.0 public beta test next week, the week of April 19. It's taken longer to get to this public beta because we made the decision to extend the alpha process to catch as many bugs as possible before introducing MT3b to the general public.

The alpha testing started about one month ago on March 17, 2004. As anticipated, the alpha uncovered a number of issues that are now fixed, and we thank our alpha testers for their hard work in testing out the software.

If you had applied to be part of the alpha and we missed you, we apologize. As a result of the kinks we encountered during the alpha tester selection process, we've made improvements to the...

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April 2004

04.17.2004

Movable Type 3.0 Beta Testing

We'll be starting the Movable Type 3.0 public beta test next week, the week of April 19. It's taken longer to get to this public beta because we made the decision to extend the alpha process to catch as many bugs as possible before introducing MT3b to the general public.

The alpha testing started about one month ago on March 17, 2004. As anticipated, the alpha uncovered a number of issues that are now fixed, and we thank our alpha...

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Question

Can I receive upgrade credit for donations or commercial license payments for versions prior to 3.x?

Answer

If, in the past you have donated or paid for a Movable Type commercial license, we want to thank you by providing credit for your past payments.

Donations

You will need the Recently Updated Key(s) issued to you in exchange for your donation.

We will credit you $20 for the first key, $25 for your second key, and $20 for any subsequent keys up to the price of the license. Your keys can only be used once and if you subsequently...

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Configuring TrackBack functionality for the system

Problem

You want to set up and configure TrackBack functionality for your system

Solution

Use the TrackBack configuration directives in mt-config.cgi

Discussion

Configuration of the TrackBack functionality is done in both the mt.cfg file and the Weblog settings. The following are the configuration directives that are related to TrackBacks and pings. • TrackBackScript

Sets the name of the TrackBack script in the MT home directory. The default is mt-tb.cgi. • GenerateTrackBackRSS

Individual RSS 0.91 feeds will be automatically...

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Question

I need to add a new author to the system, but I don't have an Authors shortcut and/or do not see a link to Create New Authors on the Authors Listing.

Answer

In version 3.2, only the System Administrator can create, edit and delete authors; Blog Administrators can only do the following with regard to authors: add an existing author to a weblog which they administer, and assign them permissions for that weblog

• modify the email address and permissions for an existing author who is assigned to a weblog which they administer

• remove an existing...

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1.00 (2001.10.08)

• First public release. • Improved diagnostics for some default-template-related, rebuild-related error messages. (Christina Wodtke) • Added ``Creating a new blog'' instructions to manual, and link to this section of the manual when creating a new blog. (Christina Wodtke) • Added MTEntryPrevious and MTEntryNext containers to refer to the previous and next entries, respectively. These tags should work in any entry context. (Christina Wodtke) • Tried to make install doc a little clearer by moving some Unix-specific stuff down into...

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PingInterface

By default, outgoing Trackback and update pings are sent to the internet using the default network interface card (NIC) on the server running Movable Type. In some rare cases, it may be necessary or desirable to have the outbound ping traffic sent over a different network interface card or network connection. In these situations, enter the IP address of the network interface card that should be used to send the outgoing ping notifications.

You may specify only the IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) or an IP address and port number (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:#). If no port number is...

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04.15.2005

Workflow for Movable Type released

Workflow, a new plugin for Movable Type 3.1x, has just been released by David Raynes. While we don't usually feature new plugins as part of our news about the Movable Type platform, we thought it was worth pointing out because Workflow adds a powerful new area of functionality, and also marks a milestone for the growth of our plugin community.

First, the features: Workflow lets you limit control of publshing rights to certain authors in your Movable Type installation, allowing other people on the system to act as editors and review entries before they're published. Administrators can control who has rights to...

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Introduction

We should probably included a full explanation of TrackBack and how it works, but there isn't enough time to do it justice.

Needs refinement. This comes in out of nowhere. better define "resource" and "communication."

Weblog comments still require the use of that particular site's interface and the content is limited to that one weblog unless it is cut, pasted, and posted elsewhere.

Released in August 2002 as both an open protocol and new functionality in MT version 2.2, TrackBack was designed to provide a means of notification through a small message called a...

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0.09 (2001.10.06)

• Improved look and functionality of default templates; also added default templates for all archive types. • Set more default options when creating a new blog or editing 'First Blog'. • Added instructions for exporting NewsPro entries into the correct format; thanks to Jeremy W for sending along the instructions, which are now in the manual. • Added author attribute to MTEntries tag, so you can grab all of the posts by a particular author (can also be combined with category and lastn). (Jeremy W) • In comment notifications, the...

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2.61 (2003.02.16)

• Fixed extra update ping problem--if TrackBack ping URLs were added to the URLs to ping, the update pings would be sent again. No longer. (Phil Ringnalda) • Fixed bug where turning on NoHTMLEntities 1 would cause entities to be lost in entries. • Added a <$MTEntryTrackbackID$> tag. Thanks to Christopher Laco for the patch. • Added a NoCDATA setting to mt.cfg to turn off the CDATA encoding, if you don't like it. • Fixed bug with PostgreSQL conversion, where after running mt-db2sql.cgi, sequences were not set to highest ID....

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07.27.2005

Dynamic Publishing support for PostgreSQL and SQLite

It's a common refrain for us to talk about Movable Type's wide platform support, but we really are committed to making sure Movable Type's full power is available on the widest variety of platforms. It's an investment that takes a lot of care and attention, but we think it's well worth the effort.

For example, take databases. Movable Type has long supported multiple databases, with MySQL and Berkeley DB being among the most popular. But two mature, popular open-source database technologies that a lot of our users have requested have also part of our platform support for over two years: PostgreSQL and...

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10.29.2004

Firefox on the March

Red Herring's got an interview with Rob Davis, the man behind the campaign to advertise Firefox in the New York Times. It's especially good timing for promoting every geek's favorite browser, since the updated roadmap shows the browser scheduled for release on November 9th.

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10.29.2004

Advice to the bloglorn

Metaforix President Lois C. Ambash has some advice for those afraid of business blogging. It's a solid set of guidelines, but we also loved the praise for TypePad:

As a novice blogger, I chose TypePad for my own blog, and I couldn't be happier. The...

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Required: Java

This wasn't nearly as hard as it looks. I'm reprinting it here (adjusted for what I said) because things on the net tend to disappear when you aren't looking.

Here's the two functions you need. Put these at the top of your page (**needed on EVERY page you want to do this collapse/expand thingy**)

<script language="javascript"> function showMore(varA1, varB1){ var123 = ('varXYZ' + (varA1)); varABC = ('varP' + (varA1)); if( document.getElementById ) { if( document.getElementById(var123).style.display ) { if( varB1 != 0 ) { document.getElementById(var123).style.display = "block"; document.getElementById(varABC).style.display = "none"; } else {...

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Question

I don't like the default filenames Movable Type assigns to my files. Can these be changed?

Answer

Yes, you can control these filenames.

Index Templates

For Index Templates, you can change the Output File name on the Edit Template screen.

Archive Templates

For Archive Templates, you can use Archive File Templates (on the Settings > Publishing screen, under Archive Mapping1).

This feature lets you customize the names/paths of your archive files, using standard Movable Type tags. This allows you to impose a directory structure and...

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Question

I'm having trouble getting a full export of my entries using the default export function. Are there other ways I can perform an export?

Answer

Movable Type contains a function to export all of the entries in your blog, but that doesn't mean your options stop there. You can easily export a single entry, all entries from one or more categories, or break your exports down by month (helpful for those with large blogs whose server times out on the export).

The secret is in this export format file. By downloading this file and pasting it into...

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