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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, 30 KB, 1181 words
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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alogblog, Plugins, 23 KB, 1763 words
This plugin enables you to use WYSIWYG editor easily and customzably in Movable Type. There are many available open WYSIWYG editors. I've used HTMLArea and FCKeditor. Both are very good, even though they give some loads to your PC. But as time goes by, this load could be trivial.
My alogblogMTinterface plugin uses many alternate templates. Therefore the users who use my alogblogMTinterface might have some troubles in personally adapting other WYSIWYG editors. Of course I also have the same trouble whenever new W~G editors or its MT plugins are released. So I decided to provide W~G in it independently.
One of the powerful features of FCKeditor is the Media...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 19 KB, 924 words
If you are creating a group weblog with multiple authors, you might want to customize the look of the Movable Type editing windows with the group's logo. MT3.1 makes this really easy to do. The styles.css file and the images folder that are in the folder you chose for your static files on your server are where you can find the files you will need to adjust.
Changing the logo
The default upper left-hand logo of the editing window looks like this in MT3.x:
The file name is topnav-logo.gif and it can be found in the images folder in your static files folder. You can use an image editing program like Photoshop to swap out the Movable Type logo for that of the group's. Save the image...
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alogblog, Plugins, 17 KB, 781 words
This plugin changes the original MT interface to new one. I named it as alogblog MT interface. It's for anyone fully accustomed to MT 3.2's menu system, because it has no visible menu title, just only icons.
Features
• 720px fixed width(essentialy wider than the original) • center located • round cornered box • top located icon menubar • switchable alternate stylesheets • configurable to each blog • disabling plugin restores original MT interface
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Installation
Download this plugin and place files like this: • (mt home)/plugins/BigPAPI.pl • (mt...
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Eat Drink Sleep MT, News, 18 KB, 618 words
I really need to learn Perl. I can look at some code and stumble through it to figure out what's happening, and I can hack it with minor changes - but I really don't know what I'm doing. And once I learn Perl I can learn to write some MT plugins.
I've had ideas for a few plugins floating around in my head: • A plugin to change the file upload behavior. I've hacked the file upload template and CMS.pm to add a Photo Gallery option that formats the URI as I need it and insert it into a new entry; I think this could be made into a plugin with BigPAPI. Done: Better File Uploader. • A file management plugin. It doesn't need to be terribly...
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Movalog, News, 28 KB, 806 words
At long last I've made some updates to the Style Generator to better fit with Six Apart's standard. This means that you can finally apply the tips discussed in this tutorial to stylesheets created using the style gen. Most of the other changes are mostly on the backend code so that it's easier for me to build on it in the future. The only real change on the frontend is the addition of a splash page that allows you to select the number of columns - as cool as the on-the-fly capability was it was a major pain to support. A big thank you to Six Apart for letting me use their images, I'm a terrible graphics designer!
The biggest feature I am working on right now is the ability to load...
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mgs | September 27th 2005