• Initial beta release

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0.02 (2001.09.25)

• Added FTP URLs to installation instructions. (Daniel Talsky) • Fix some warnings. (Caroline van Oosten de Boer)...

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Question

My webserver doesn't have sendmail; how do I use SMTP instead?

Answer

If you have tried to get sendmail working, or if you know that your webserver doesn't have sendmail (for example, if you're on a Windows server), Movable Type allows you to send email messages through SMTP. To do this, you will need to install the Mail::Sendmail Perl module; if you are on a Windows server, you can do this using Activestate's ppm tool. Launch ppm, then at the prompt, type install Mail::Sendmail

and ppm will do all of the work to install the module. If...

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If you have a lot of content - entries, categories, sidebar information - sooner or later things may begin to look a little cluttered on your weblog. One way to address this is to make some of your lists expandable and collapsible, as I have done with LMT's Table of Contents. There are probably many different ways to do this. I have found one method, based on Javascript, that is simple to implement and appears to work fine, from Bleeding Ego.

1. Upload listmenu.js to your server.

Copy the following script into a new file with a texteditor. Save the script as "listmenu.js". Upload the script to a location within the public directory of your server using an FTP program. (You can...

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Verifying System Requirements

Problem

You want to verify that the Movable Type system requirements have been met.

Solution

Use your browser to run the mt-check.cgi script.

Discussion

Movable Type requires the presence of several standard Perl modules, separate from the Movable Type code itself. Movable Type comes with all of the required modules except for DB_File, DBD::mysql, DBD::Pg, DBD::sqlite, and DBI. These modules can not be distributed with Movable Type because they require some of their code to be compiled for your server's specific operating system and processor.

Movable Type's capabilities...

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12.12.2001

Version 1.3 Released

We have released a new version of Movable Type, version 1.3. Existing users of versions 1.0-1.2 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: • XML-RPC server implementation of the Blogger API, so you can use existing XML-RPC clients to post to Movable Type ( more information) • Search and replace functionality ( more information) • Ability to specify the directory in which upload files are placed, rather than just dumping files into the archive...

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We have released a new version of Movable Type, version 1.3. Existing users of versions 1.0-1.2 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: • XML-RPC server implementation of the Blogger API, so you can use existing XML-RPC clients to post to Movable Type ( more information) • Search and replace functionality ( more information) • Ability to specify the directory in which upload files are placed, rather than just dumping files into the archive directory ( more information) • Archive File Templates: the...

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05.31.2005

Movable Type Cheat Sheet

One of the great things about Movable Type being localized into a number of languages and having such a broad international presence is that we get great contributions from our community around the world. The latest contribution is Jörg Petermann's Movable Type Cheat Sheet, which he's published in both German and English.

The Cheat Sheet, available in both PDF and PNG formats, covers all the standard Movable Type template tags, as well as common attributes for the tags and the date format used for output. Most of these tags also apply to TypePad's advanced templates as well, so it's worth keeping a copy of the Cheat Sheet...

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Installing Additional Language Support

Problem

You want support for an additional language.

Solution

Install one of Movable Type's language packs.

Discussion

Need input on how a user can request & acquire additional language packs.

Movable Type supports multiple languages through the use of language packs. A language pack is simply a list of translated phrases and words for use by the Movable Type system.

To install a language pack that you've downloaded from the Movable Type web site, follow these steps: • 1. Copy the translated phrases.

The .pm file contains the...

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In the past few weeks I've managed to make MT Blogroll work on a Windows/IIS environment. I have only tested this plugin on one server so I'm not entirely sure how well this works. So Download MT-Blogroll_2.02.zip and follow the installation instructions. The only difference for you Windows users is that the contents of the lib/ folder in the distribution must go into the extlib/ directory hence you get extlib/Blogroll etc.

The only requirement is that you have MT 3.16 installed as important bugs were fixed.

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01.31.2005

BlogBinders: Publish your blog in print

If you're looking for a way to hold your blog in your hands, BlogBinders.com offers a simple and clever service to turn your blog into an attractive, customized book. BlogBinders supports LiveJournal, Movable Type, and TypePad.

Posted by Anil in Web Services at 10:58 AM | Permalink | Trackback (0)

01.31.2005

Gawker launches Lifehacker and Gridskipper

Gawker Media's just added two new Movable Type-powered weblogs to its media empire, as announced by Nick Denton. Lifehacker is a friendly geek site and Gridskipper is a travel site aiming for selectivity.

Posted by Anil in New Sites at 10:45 AM | Permalink |...

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06.20.2005

UTF-8 Dirify bug and patch

Today we are releasing a patch to fix an issue for customers running Movable Type versions 3.16 or 3.17 and using UTF-8 character encoding on their weblogs. Specifically, a bug introduced in Movable Type 3.16 causes the dirify routine to preserve dashes in transformed text where, historically, it has suppressed them. This could be problematic because the dirify routine is used to create all URLs in Movable Type.

While default Movable Type installations are not adversely affected by this bug, there are certain common or legacy customizations (which will be detailed below) that could cause problems. For that reason,...

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Neil has apparently turned the corner with his second upgrade of the 3.2 beta. The first didn't go quite so well. This is a conversation that pops up all over the place when this sort of thing comes up. Invariably there are problems and everyone is scrambling to get back to where they were. With Movable Type, I don't understand.

This is because of the easy configuration of the product. All you need is a little extra space on your account, an extra MySQL database and a text editor.

When I get a new upgrade, even one that is a tiny upgrade that's said not to need any major changes, I take that upgrade and compare the files to the ones from the currently running version. Typically...

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The "critical upgrade" to Movable Type 3.15 can be done a little quicker: by checking file dates, it appears that uploading just the following will perform the upgrade from version 3.14: • docs, lib and php folders. • mt.js and styles.css files. • mt-upgrade31.cgi, if you need it for some odd reason.

If you found this article useful, please consider supporting this site through a donation.

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Question

I want to put an image on the top of my page instead of just my blog name. How can I do that?

Answer

Modify Stylesheet Template Only

This method makes it possible to change all of the pages at the same time. It also assumes that you still have the default class and ID names in your templates. • Upload image file.

• In the Stylesheet template, edit the banner section, specifying the location of your image, and the correct width and height: #banner { background-image:url(http://example.com/image.gif); background-repeat: repeat-y;...

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Six Apart has announced that MT 3.17 has been released. This is a minor bug fix release with the main changes being: • Fixed a bug in the nofollow plugin which causes HTML sanitization of everything within an <MTPings> block. • Installation at the root of a domain no longer continually logs out the user. • Fixed URL-encoding of uploaded file paths (e.g. images%2fbeach-pic.jpeg) • Fixed a bug in mt-db2sql.cgi which caused it to fail in certain situations when subcategories are in use before conversion.

According to an announcement in the 6A ProNet, if you are running MT 3.16 and want to upgrade just the files that have changed from MT3.16, you can simply upload these files. Have you found the tutorials at Learning Movable Type helpful? Please consider linking to LMT at http://www.learningmovabletype.com/ . Thanks!...

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This Movable Type plugin implements a pair of template tags that allow you to filter a listing of categories by specifying the categories either to include in or to exclude from the listing.

Installation

To install the FilterCategories plugin, upload the file FilterCategories.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] staggernation [DOT] com, or post them in the Plugin Development area of the Movable Type...

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11.29.2001

MT-Search Release

Jay Allen has released MT-Search, an add-on module that will enable users to perform end-user searches on MT-powered weblogs.

Some features: • Easy install and setup • Completely template driven • Multiple template support • Multiple blog search • Configurable search • Editing links if logged in

While MT-Search is not an "official" Movable Type release, we wholeheartedly support Jay's work and recommend this add-on to our users.

If you have any MT-Search related questions or comments, please direct them to Jay.

Posted by Mena at 03:36 PM | Permalink

11.29.2001

Donors List Update

The Movable Type donor list...

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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 plugins that adds various javascript and AJAX widgets into Movable Type's interface. It has, of course, been built for Movable Type 3.2. The first of which is EnhancedEntryEditing. This plugin adds two widgets into the entry screen: • Resizable Textareas - I personally find the textareas on the entry screen too small and find it annoying to hack the stylesheet everytime I upgrade Movable Type. This plugin now adds "Increase Size" and...

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1. Download the package.

2. Unzip it.

3. Connect to your FTP folder. Open your mt-static directory. Using binary, drag and drop the "images" folder to your mt-static directory, overwriting everything that is in that folder.

4. Using ASCII, upload the Docs, mt.js, and styles.css all go up to the mt-static directory.

5. Go to your MT directory, wherever you installed it the first time. Using ASCII, drag and drop "examples", "extlib", "lib", "php", "schemas", "search_templates", "tmpl", "tools" into that directory, overwriting the directories that are already there. If you already have a "plugins" folder, don't bother uploading this because it's empty.

6. Take all the remaining...

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This Movable Type plugin implements a template tag for displaying text based on whether an entry's date falls within Daylight Saving Time.

Required Modules

The MTDaylightOrStandard tag uses the Time::Local module, part of the standard Perl distribution.

Installation

To install the DaylightOrStandard plugin, upload the file DaylightOrStandard.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]&...

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