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.
Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 25 KB, 875 words
1.1 (2001.10.22)
• Made <$MTDate$> work as a ``system date'', or the current date/time at which the page is being rebuilt. • Added Pragma: no-cache header to keep Opera from caching pages. (Jay) • Changed default templates to use iso-8859-1 (Latin 1) encoding instead of utf-8. • Added Blog Configuration option for the number of words in an auto-generated excerpt. • Added comment previewing, using the new Comment Preview template. Default templates now ship with comment previewing enabled, and the comments links on the main index...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 31 KB, 2050 words
Updated September 23, 2004 There are two basic ways to create an about page in Movable Type. The first is to just create it as any ordinary entry. Then use the permalink URL to link to it from your main page. Unless you want comments and trackbacks on your About page, disable them for that entry. The other method is to create a new index template just for your About information. The steps for this method are outlined as follows: 1. From the templates menu, select Create new index template. Name the template something recognizable as referring to an about page. Pick a name for the output file and enter it in the output file field. Use either the .html or .php extension for the...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 30 KB, 2091 words
Updated April 30, 2005
Once in a while you might just want to show actual code - HTML, PHP, or Javascript - in an entry you make in Movable Type. For example, say I want to show the A HREF tag and code to get to elise.com. It looks like this:
<a href="http://www.elise.com">elise.com</a>
However, if I simply type that code in while I'm writing the entry, the resulting page will not show the tags and code, but the actual link: elise.com.
So how do you display code in entries? There are several methods:
1. Manually write out the symbol equivalents of your code. If all you want to do is write a short tag, the easiest way may be to write out the < and...
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Movable Type Weblog, Tutorials, 15 KB, 316 words
Question
The start page of my weblog only shows one entry. However, there are several published entries in the database. What has happened?
Answer
The start page is styled by a template. It is the so-called Main Index Template. Within this template you will find an MTEntries tag. This tag loops over all published entries and outputs a defined number of all entries to the start page.
If the template only shows...
<MTEntries>
then all entries that were published during the last X days are printed. The number X is taken from the weblog configuration (see weblog config, preferences, general settings, number of days displayed). If nothing has been published within...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 31 KB, 856 words
In this thread, Gary highlighted how to have drop downs of archives that basically redirected to the appropriate page once an archive was chosen. With this tutorial, I'll take that one step further and use AJAX such that when you select an archive, rather than redirecting to the corresponding archive page, the appropriate posts will just replace those currently shown. You can see a pretty basic example heremp;
First of all, here's the AJAX code that you'll need to put within your <head></head> tags <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- var xmlhttp=false; /*@cc_on @*/ /*@if (@_jscript_version >= 5) try { xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); }...
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Six Apart Knowledgebase, Manuals, 26 KB, 423 words
Question
I see that in the examples in the documentation, some tags use $ and some don't. What is the difference?
Answer
Movable Type allows you to put $ in certain tags to distinguish them from other HTML tags if you wish. However, there are two basic types of Movable Type tags: variable tags and container tags.
A variable tag is a substitution tag. It is a placeholder for a dynamic piece of information. For example, the <$MTEntryTitle$> tag is replaced with the title of the entry.
A container tag contains what might be called a...
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Don't Back Down, Tutorials, 15 KB, 989 words
While my earlier example illustrated the concept of automating pagination with Smarty in your Movable Type archives, I had a couple of problems with it.
First and foremost was that if someone "hacked" the URL, to submit their own value for a start range, then the links wouldn't work right. They might start on entry number 2 instead of entry 1, and while the previous link would say 1-1 (itself a bit ugly), it would actually render entries starting with 1, but the page would biuld through the default limit or the end of the category, whichever came first.
So I played with adding a user-specified limit (with a maximum size). But it had the same problem, in that if someone specified a...
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Six Apart Knowledgebase, Manuals, 27 KB, 494 words
Question
How can I keep an entry on the top of my weblog's main page?
Answer
Sometimes, you may have an announcement or other important entry that you'd like to stay above the other entries on your weblog. There are several ways to do this.
Post-Date the Entry
The easiest method is to change the Authored On date of your entry to a future date. This will keep it at the top of any listings sorted by date, until an entry with a later date is published.
Edit the Main Index Template
For a note that will always stay on the top and rarely needs to...
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Don't Back Down, Tutorials, 13 KB, 838 words
Episula (Epistula?) Syndication Format. Hmm. Haven't figured this one out yet. Starting with "episula syndication format" at Google, I end up at Dylan Green dot Com, which offers up yet another acronym: Even Simpler Format.
I eventually stumbled through a comment and came across the actual specification for ESF. I find it interesting that it is mentioned that Movable Type does not support the Unix (seconds since the Epoch) format. Almost gleefully, in fact. Sounds strange indeed. So back to Google I go.
How about "movabletype epoch"? Sure enough, this turns up a new plugin (new to me anyway) called, appropriately, MT-Epoch. Installation instructions seem simple enough: put it in...
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Don't Back Down, Tutorials, 16 KB, 1142 words
As mentioned previously, using Smarty for pagination isn't difficult. Of course, the simple example already given doesn't really do much - your users would still need to know about it, and manually construct the URL. That wouldn't be much fun. Using Smarty, we can do the work for them!
You'll need to start with a "total" count. I use MTCategoryCount, as I'm doing this on category archives. If you wanted to do a complete blog archive, you may want to use MTBlogEntryCount or something similar. You could also perform a similar process for comments with MTEntryCommentCount, trackbacks with MTEntryTrackbackCount, etc. {{capture...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 26 KB, 1018 words
1.3 (2001.12.11)
• Fixed bug where days="N" would override category="Foo" in <MTEntries> tag. (cwodtke) • Added DBM file locking (shared lock when reading, exclusive when writing). • Export process now exports excerpts, and import now imports them. • When you upload a file, if a file by that name (at that location) already exists, you now get a confirmation screen to overwrite the file, or not. (Requires that File::Temp is installed.) • Added search and replace functionality. • You can now upload files into specific directories...
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Brad Choate, Plugins, 101 KB, 4889 words
Yes, I realize Movable Type is not a general-purpose content management system, but if you're in a pinch it can do wonders. Especially with this plugin, which allows you to associate other bits of data with your entries which can be extracted conviently in your templates. (Click the more link for more information.)
Availability
You can download this plugin here: mtkeyvalues-1_53.zip
Installation
To install, place the...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 29 KB, 1085 words
Via PhotoMatt I found a very interesting comments thread on what is basically an argument of Movable Type vs. WordPres. Now everyone knows that I worship Movable Type, but I wish to voice some thoughts on this topic.
Movable Type and Wordpress are aimed at completely different audiences. If you upgraded to MT 3.0 you would have seen that the title was no longer "MOVABLE TYPE :: Personal Publishing System" but now was "Movable Type Publishing Platform." As can be seen from this post at Mena's Corner
One final thing. You'll notice that we're no longer describing Movable Type as a "Personal Publishing System" -- we now call it a "Publishing Platform." While "personal" remains a major...
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Don't Back Down, News, 19 KB, 1366 words
I quietly released a new version of MT-Notifier about a month ago. This was in response to the feature ransom that I introduced, and those who contributed to the ransom have been running this version since that time. This serves as an introduction to everyone else.
This version of MT-Notifier supports entry notifications as well as comment notifications. The changes are pretty much self-explanatory in the management interface. Simply choose the option you would like for your entire installation, an individual blog or a category, and users will be able to sign up accordingly.
If there is no notification type set on a particular level (for instance, a category), the system will look...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 25 KB, 1336 words
Updated
The default templates in Movable Type list archives by month, not by category. See the following steps for configuring your weblog for category archiving, creating and assigning categories, adding a category list in your sidebar, and adding a "Posted to" line at the end of each entry.
1. Edit your weblog configuration for category archiving. In your weblog config window, tab over to "archiving". Put a check in the checkbox next to "category". Save and rebuild your weblog.
2. Create and assign categories. When you create a new entry, right next to the Title window is a scroll bar for selecting a category. Scroll down to "Add new category". This will open a window for...
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Six Apart News, News, 22 KB, 1220 words
01.21.2002
MT 2.0
Development on MT version 2.0 is going smoothly and we're looking at a early March release. Can you believe it's almost February?
A list of definite 2.0 features: • Multiple category support: The ability to assign multiple categories per entry • Multiple archive template per archive type • Interface modifications, application navigation and icon improvements based on findings from professional usability testing • Power edit screen: Apply title, category or author changes to multiple entries -- using one screen and all at once • More sorting options for the MTEntries tag: alphabetical by title, most recently commented-on, ascending and...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 26 KB, 854 words
Displaying a Calendar Layout
Problem
You want to create a calendar layout in your template.
Solution
Use the template tags prefixed with MTCalendar.
Discussion
Movable Type includes a collection of template tags prefixed with MTCalendar; these can be used for creating calendar layouts that serve either navigational or display purposes. MTCalendar tags are sufficiently generic to create calendars in many different formats; however, HTML tables are the most common, • MTCalendar
MTCalendar is a container tag representing a calendar month that lists a single calendar "cell" in...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 33 KB, 961 words
This setting defines the name of your weblog and the output of the MTBlogName template tag. This name will be used for display within the Movable Type system itself, and it will also be sent to any recently updated services you have specified on the weblog's New Entry Default settings screen.
This is a required field.
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Staggernation, Plugins, 9 KB, 686 words
This very simple Movable Type plugin implements a template tag for displaying the first N words of an entry or any other text. While Movable Type's MTEntryExcerpt tag will automatically generate an excerpt consisting of the first N words of the entry body. However, you must configure the value of N for an entire blog, so you can't have excerpts of one length on one template and another length on another. This plugin allows you to display excerpts of different lengths in different places, and also lets you excerpt text other than an entry body.
Installation
To install the FirstNWords plugin, upload the file FirstNWords.pl to the plugins directory within your Movable Type directory. If you...
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