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.
Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 23 KB, 1514 words
Movable Type comes with a default search capability that your site visitors can use to search for keywords in your weblog entries. You can add functionality to the search form that people see on your site, and make adjustments to the templates that govern how the results are displayed.
Keyword Search Templates
Suppose you want to change the way the search results look when someone uses the default MT search function to do a search on your website.
Movable Type's templates that govern the MT keyword search results pages operate differently than the other weblog templates. (You may have noticed this if you have changed the name of your default weblog stylesheet away from...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 33 KB, 1508 words
UPDATE: I had pulled out the functionality to check spelling with this toolbar, well I've put back the functionality. Just download the quicktags.js file that coressponds to your version of MT again and re-upload it. A new button called "Dict." will appear that will query a highlighted word to dictionary.com !
Please go to the MT 2.x instructions to fix a problem with the Quicktags not aligning properly.
This tutorial will allow you to have the Quicktags I described in my previous entry but is not restricted to MT 3.01D.
The files you will need:
Quicktags.js
The MT 2.x Version | The MT 3.x Version
Upload the quicktags js file to your staticwebpath - ie the same folder than...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 29 KB, 1118 words
UPDATED 09/10: There was a problem with the files as phps so I've zipped them UPDATED 09/04: To fix SmartyPants
So you've downloaded the very new 3.1 with all the amazing features but you've found one problem, your plugins no longer work with the dynamic templating. Well its not only plugins, text filters also no longer work.... Here are some methods by which you can combat this problem, some may not work in all cases but its better than nothing for other cases.
• Text Filters In a previous tutorial I had linked to PHP Markdown, but a few people have contacted me about Textile as well. So I have collected PHP versions of Markdown, Textile and SmartyPants Just download the following...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 37 KB, 1971 words
UPDATE: Make your own
With Movable Type 3.12, Six Apart built in a more powerful set of quicktags and on the whole they worked pretty well and looked quite nice too. I didn't really want to go back to the clunky Quicktags of before. So here are a few hacks to port some of the most useful features (in my opinion) from the old quicktags, to the new. You will need the following files • edit_entry.tmpl, this is found in MTDIR/tmpl/cms • mt.js, this is found in your StaticWebPath (or if you have none in your root MTDIR folder)
I have decided to port over four functions, Spell Check, Encoding HTML and Insert Image
Spell Check
Add the following to the end of your mt.js file
function Spell(myField)...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 31 KB, 1212 words
For a few months, I had deliberated adding a WYSIWYG Editor into the Movable Type entry screen and when Typepad implemented an editor into its interface I got jealous. So, here's a way to implement the very powerful HTMLArea into Movable Type (currently only Internet Explorer, Mozilla browsers and other Gecko based browsers supported)
1. Download HTMLArea 3.0 rc-1 and upzip it 2. Upload the files to a folder called htmlarea in your StaticWebPath 3. Open up tmpl/cms/header.tmpl and add the following in <head>...</head> tags
<script type="text/javascript"> _editor_url = "<TMPL_VAR NAME=STATIC_URI>htmlarea/"; _editor_lang = "en"; </script>...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 37 KB, 2028 words
Co-authored by Arvind Satyanarayan and Elise Bauer Tutorial cross posted on Movalog and Learning Movable Type
With the release of Movable Type 3.1 comes a new and powerful feature - Dynamic Publishing. To take advantage of Dynamic Publishing, you need to edit or create a file on your Apache server called .htaccess as explained in the Movable Type Manual. htaccess files can give you extra control over your server, allowing you to password protect directories, enable server side includes, generate custom error messages, and block users by IP address among other things. (See this Guide to .htaccess for more information.)
Note: You should really know what you are doing before...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 40 KB, 3199 words
Upgrading Movable Type
Problem
You want to upgrade the Movable Type software.
Solution
Upgrading follows nearly the same steps as installation except that you will want to perform a backup of your system before attempting the upgrade. If you are upgrading from Movable Type 3.1x or before, you will also want to migrate to the new configuration file: mt-config.cgi.
Discussion
If you're on any past version of Movable Type, version 3.2 offers a lot of features and improvements that will make managing your blogs easier. To take advantage of them, you'll need to install the latest...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 30 KB, 1480 words
3.16 (2005.04.13)
Security
• Made several important improvements with regards to application authentication and security.
Notifications
• Fixed ``Send Notifications'' feature for multiple recipients. • Fixed a bug where comment notifications weren't being sent for some moderated comments.
Error checking
• Improved validation of user input in many places. Leading and trailing whitespace is trimmed from author names, category names, and blog names. None of these can be left blank except for a known issue with editing the...
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MezzoBlue, Tutorials, 17 KB, 1765 words
Step right up, step this way. Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you the amazing journey from one server-side technology to another. You'll be amazed, you'll be awed, you'll laugh, you'll cry. You'll… okay, so my writing style needs to calm down a touch.
I've been working on this on and off for months now, and I meant to have it up far earlier than this. Some of the final details are fuzzy at this point, but the bulk of it is on target.
This is the process I went through when upgrading my Movable-Type powered site from IIS (and ASP) to Apache (and PHP), from start to finish. For the benefit of Google, and you the reader, I'll try to spare...
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Eat Drink Sleep MT, Tutorials, 73 KB, 4269 words
I've assembled some templates to build a photo gallery with Movable Type. What makes mine different and special from all the others? Easy: it's compatible with MT version 3.2. That means it'll work with the StyleCatcher plugin and the Movable Type Style Generator!
The only special requirement to use these templates is PHP. PHP is used to calculate the image size. The plugin Better File Uploader - with its For Photo Gallery button - will make adding photos go much quicker.
I've created a small example gallery, if you're interested in seeing the result before trying it yourself.
Setup a New Weblog
First, you'll want to create a new...
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Eat Drink Sleep MT, Tutorials, 80 KB, 5741 words
I've assembled some templates to build a photo gallery with Movable Type. What makes mine different and special from all the others? Easy: it's compatible with MT version 3.2. That means it'll work with the StyleCatcher plugin and the Movable Type Style Generator!
The only special requirement to use these templates is PHP. PHP is used to calculate the image size. The plugin Better File Uploader - with its For Photo Gallery button - will make adding photos go much quicker.
I've created a small example gallery, if you're interested in seeing the result before trying it yourself.
Setup a New Weblog
First, you'll want to create a new...
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Six Apart Knowledgebase, Manuals, 30 KB, 1033 words
Question
My database has been corrupted. Is there any way to avoid losing my data?
Answer
This answer depends a great deal on the level of corruption, the type of backups you have, and how much information is still accessible from within your existing installation (as opposed to being in external files such as the static pages Movable Type has generated from the data).
Does your host maintain backups for your account?
If so, do they have any which would include copies of your database files prior to the time corruption appears to have occurred?...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 53 KB, 4094 words
All roads in weblogging lead to posting entries, for without posted entries there is no weblog. It should come as no surprise that the Entries Listing and New/Edit Entry screens are where most users will find themselves when working with Movable Type.
In these screens a user can view what entries are in a weblog, filter them based on certain criteria, make new posts and edit existing ones.
Entries Listing
The Entries Listing screen displays either all the entries for the weblog or just the entries made by you. What gets displayed depends on whether or not you have been granted Edit All Posts access.
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Staggernation, Plugins, 12 KB, 1043 words
This Movable Type plugin implements a set of template tags for displaying a portion of a template conditionally, depending on the results of a comparison between values. The values compared can be literal strings or numbers, or they can be pieces of MT template code that the plugin will build and evaluate, using the result in the comparison.
MT users have developed a number of techniques in PHP and JavaScript to implement various useful conditional-display features on MT-based sites. The tags in the Compare plugin should let you accomplish many of these same tasks within your MT templates, without using PHP or JavaScript tricks. For example: • Display different text in the Comments link for...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 21 KB, 1256 words
When you are first setting up a new weblog, Movable Type prompts you to choose a file extension in the weblog config preferences section. The default setting is HTML.
If your server allows PHP scripts, and you would like to add customization features that aren't part of the default Movable Type system, it is highly recommended that you choose PHP as your default file extension preference in place of HTML. Doing so allows you to take advantage of many freely available PHP scripts to help customize your weblog. PHP is an open source scripting language that is powerful, stable, and extremely popular for adding dynamic elements to websites. In your Movable Type weblog, PHP scripts can...
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Six Apart News, News, 29 KB, 1796 words
The Movable Type team has been hard at work and we have some very exciting things coming in the 2005 release schedule. To kick things off we are proud to introduce Movable Type 3.16.
Movable Type 3.16 sports significant improvements to application security and over one hundred other fixes which really make it a highly recommended upgrade for all users.
Movable Type 3.16 is a simple drop-in replacement for any user who is running version 3.1 or higher. As long as you are running one of these more recent versions, there is no need to run an upgrade script or do anything other than upload the files in the upgrade distribution. Of course, if you're running a version older...
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Six Apart Knowledgebase, Manuals, 29 KB, 692 words
Question
When using Movable Type, the images don't appear, no styles are being applied, and the Help links don't work.
Answer
If you installed Movable Type into a cgi-bin, certain files (referred to as "static" files), must be situated outside of the cgi-bin in order to be readable by your browser. The rest of this article explains how to make sure Movable Type can find these files.
Which Files Are Static Files?
Version 3.2 and higher
In version 3.2 of Movable Type, all of the required static files are stored by default in a folder...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 28 KB, 1017 words
Smarty Docs
Now that Smarty is built into MT, you've got a whole load of new features that you can use. Just have a look at the documentation everything discussed in those docs are available to MT users, the only difference is instead of single braces you need to use double, for example where in the Smarty docs it gives you a line like this {include file="sidebar.php"}
when you implement that into MT it will need to become {{include file="sidebar.php"}}
This was chosen over the single braces because the single braces can cause problems when you start writing Javascript. None-the-less if you really wish to use single braces, find in your mtview.php template the following line (thanks...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 31 KB, 1012 words
I find the Configure Active Plugins list on the MT front page very useful, however this list has been getting longer and longer and I install more and more plugins that register on there. Eventually this bugged me (big surprise eh?) and I decided to move that to its own page. Click the thumbnail to the side for a larger image.
First open up lib/MT/App/CMS.pm and find around line 40
'list_blogs' => &list_blogs,
and add right underneath it
'list_plugins' => &list_plugins,
Next around line 342 (at the end of sub list_blog) fine
$param{no_breadcrumbs} = 1; $app->build_page('list_blog.tmpl', \%param); }
and add after it
sub list_plugins { my $app = shift;...
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