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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Looking for more creative ways to extend Movable Type's templates? Try using Movable Type for running a web forum. Mark Carey created a series of templates for Movable Type which let your weblog mimic the familiar look of web bulletin boards.

In combination with Movable Type's built-in support for TypeKey or a third-party login such as Tim Appnel's TinyOrwell, it's easy to use your existing blog expertise to run an entirely different style of web forum. And of course, the same tools for managing comments, TrackBacks, and templates are available, so you can use them in combination with Movable Type plugins to create a whole new set of features for forum visitors.

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Running Movable Type With mod_perl

Problem

You want to improve the performance of Movable Type by eliminating the overhead of CGI.

Solution

Run Movable Type under mod_perl 1.x.

Discussion

mod_perl embeds a Perl interpreter into the Apache server, so that dynamic content produced by Perl scripts can be served in response to incoming requests, without the significant overhead of re-launching the Perl interpreter for each request.

Movable Type can run under mod_perl 1.x in either Registry mode or as a set of full-fledged handlers. Note that in order to run under mod_perl, you must...

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Question

What language options are available for international users?

Answer

There are two options for using Movable Type in other languages.

Official Versions

Official versions of Movable Type are currently available from our site in the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Dutch. ( Japanese is available through our subsidiary, Six Apart KK.)

Each international version has its own licensing, sales and support area, and these are linked from the "International Movable Type Releases" banner on the Movable Type home page.

These versions are...

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01.14.2004

Version 2.66 Released

In recent weeks, open comment systems, and Movable Type weblogs in particular, have become a target for comment spam and comment flooding (automated scripts that send many comments at a time to a weblog entry).

As a stopgap before we release comment registration in Movable Type 3.0, we've released version 2.66 of Movable Type, which includes some protection against comment flooding. We've included a throttling measure so that comments from the same IP address can only be posted every N seconds, where N is configurable ( documentation on the setting that controls N). We've also added a measure to automatically ban an IP...

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I'm very happy to announce that this afternoon we released Movable Type 3.1.

What you're seeing with Movable Type 3.1 is a free update that comes a little over three months from our last release. When we made our licensing and pricing changes one of the things we didn't articulate clearly enough was that it takes revenue to keep a product line going. And, with the new pricing we have been able to spend a great deal of attention focusing on the features we've heard our users asking for in our products.

Sure, some Movable Type users migrated to other tools. And, of course, it is sad to see them leave. However, we feel strongly that the Movable Type community (and Six Apart as a...

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Movable Type puts the BLING in BLoggING! ;-)

Movable Type 3.2 finally made its official debut today. Six undeclared favorite things notwithstanding ;-), MT's newest release was definitely worth the wait. The beta process was thorough (and thoroughly fun!) and the public aspect of the beta testing presumably yielded a wide variety of installation and publishing configurations, resulting in more bugs exposed and eliminated. In addition to a generous list of cool new features, MT's licensing is expanding to UNLIMITED weblogs for ALL licenses, including the personal free version. If that isn't enough, SixApart is discounting (through September) the Personal Basic and Personal Unlimited...

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Getting Movable Type News

Problem

You want to keep up on the latest Movable Type news.

Solution

Movable Type displays breaking news for users on the System Overview Menu screen.

Discussion

Movable Type makes it easy by bringing the news to you. Click the "System Overview" link in the Primary Navigation. There you will see headlines with excerpts of the latest news.

If you are a developer you will also want to follow the news from our Professional Developers Network (ProNet) Weblog found at http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/weblog/.

Mention Mena's Corner?

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The new Movable Type 3 Bible is now shipping. Available at Amazon.com. From the book description:

If Movable Type can do it, you can do it too.

Prepare your Web server and install Movable Type Set up and configure a weblog, using archives and categories to create a more sophisticated site Add visual elements with photos and graphics Design a weblog with templates and use template tags Establish communication among sites using trackback pings Add search capabilities and import content from other blogs Develop Perl-based plug-ins to enhance Movable Type Configure Movable Type to receive and manage comments from site visitors

Links: Author Rogers Cadenhead discusses the MT3 Bible...

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03.16.2004

Testing Begins & More Info about 3.0

We're taking our first steps towards the release of Movable Type 3.0. The pre-beta version has just finished its initial two rounds of alpha testing and we're now opening the testing to a larger audience (we've picked 300 random addresses from those who applied and will be adding more as time progresses).

The testing that we're conducting will not only help ensure a stable final release but will also give us an opportunity to receive feedback on feature implementation from both users and developers.

Starting today, we'll be giving all of our users much more information on what to expect in Movable Type 3.0....

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09.09.2005

Improving Movable Type Documentation

Since the launch of Movable Type 3.2, the team has moved nearly all of their efforts to processing help tickets and answering customers' questions as well as working on editing the the Movable Type User Manual. We're thrilled to have so much feedback, as the response indicates just what an overwhelming number of downloads we've had of the new version.

As many of you may know, the new manual is a complete rewrite of our documentation and because of that, we're still working to bring it up to the high standard that both you and we expect. We've been incorporating many users' suggestions left in the comments...

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I'm sure it's no surprise, but this site is now powered by Movable Type version 3.2. I could go on and on about the great new features… but I won't. A few links to those who have, though: • Announcing Movable Type 3.2 • Movable Type 3.2! • Movable Type 3.2: Our 32 Favorite Features - unfortunately, they're only up to number 26! • Movable Type 3.2 goes LIVE! Huzzah!

To summarize, it's an excellent upgrade (worthy of the v4.0 badge, as I wrote before) and I don't hesitate to support Six Apart or recommend it to others. In fact, you can take advantage of the 3.2 Release sale- -$30-off a personal license!

(By the way, the above...

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Installing Movable Type via the Command-Line

Problem

You want to install the Movable Type software and have command-line (shell) access to the server.

Solution

Transfer the latest Movable Type distribution file to your server and unpack it into your CGI directory.

Discussion

• Unpack the software.

Download the latest Movable Type distribution file and transfer it to your server. Unpack the software into your web server CGI directory. For example, if you had downloaded Movable Type 3.2 US english distribution with the CGI directory as your present working directory, you could...

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We're thrilled to announce the newest, and easiest, way to get started with Movable Type: Yahoo! Small Business web hosting now includes Movable Type. All of us on the Movable Type team have worked with the folks at Yahoo to make this the best experience possible for professionals who want to get started with blogging.

If you sign up for Yahoo! web hosting, you get a reliable, robust web hosting account with hundreds of gigabytes of bandwidth and plenty of storage space. But you also get a name you know and trust offering a blogging platform that's the most popular choice for businesses.

Many companies, especially small businesses, are unfamiliar with blogging and might even...

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05.17.2003

All the Sites That're Fit to Print

The New York Times has a couple of fun articles on weblogs this weekend, chock full of good information on the social implications of weblogs and featuring a number of great sites that are powered by Movable Type.

" Dating a Blogger, Reading All About It" features MT users like Heather Armstrong and Jonathan Van Gieson talking about the trials and tribulations of living life in public via a website, along with some cogent quotes by David Weinberger and Nick Denton. And " A New York State of Blog" focuses on a subject that's near and dear to my heart, blogging culture in New York City....

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11.02.2005

New plugins for Movable Type

As many of you know, there are hundreds of plugins in the Movable Type plugin directory through which you can completely customize and modify the way that the application works. This has always been a great strength of the Movable Type platform and we put great effort in every release to give plugins even more ways to enhance the system.

What you may not know is that since the launch of Movable Type 3.2, dozens of plugins built...

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With v3.2 of Movable Type, Six Apart removed the calendar from the sidebar of the default templates citing rebuild times as the reason. They did post the code that was used in previous versions. However, many users found that simply pasting the code in didn't yield a properly formatted calendar. So after a little digging around, I've come up with the following code which will create a calendar that will be correctly formatted and fit in with your stylesheet. Simply copy the code and put it in your sidebar - a good location would be just above <div class="module-search module">

<div class="module-calendar module"> <h2 class="module-header"><$MTDate format="%B %Y"$><...

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We've recently had a few questions raised about the licensing for Movable Type, and while the personal and commercial licenses are of course the definitive lists of your rights, we thought we'd summarize how Movable Type can and can't be used.

First, for personal, non-commercial users, Movable Type is free to download and use. We don't consider an Amazon wishlist link or a PayPal donation link to be a commercial use of your site, so you're free to update your weblog and maintain your site with Movable Type and all we'd ask is that you link back to movabletype.org and donate whatever you feel the software is worth to you.

For commercial users, we offer a few ways you can use...

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Do you use a commercial web host to host your Movable Type installation? If so, are you happy with your host? Unhappy? Please take a minute to fill out a few questions related to your web host in this very short survey. The answers will be compiled and used to update the LMT tutorial on MT Friendly Web Hosts. Thanks so much for your time!

Update: The survey is now closed. Results can be found at Movable Type Friendly Web Hosts. 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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We just got copies of Wiley::Movable Type 3.0 Bible Desktop Edition, the new book on Movable Type from Rogers Cadenhead. It looks to be one of the best books on Movable Type that's been published, including coverage of the application all the way up to version 3.1 and even includes dedicated chapters on creating and using plugins, managing syndication files, and working with the weblog APIs supported by the application.

Congratulations to Rogers on the launch of his book, and be sure to check out the excerpts on the publisher's website.

Trackbacks:

How To Blog - New book "Movable Type 3 Bible" recommeded by Six Apart team - November 12, 2004 03:49 PMIn the words of Six...

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