Recently I have received a number of comments about how MT-Notifier appears to be working fine, then suddenly stops functioning. The most often factor in this change is a larger number of subscribers. That is to say, things are working fine with a few subscribers, but as that number increases to hundreds, so to do the apparent failures of the system.

Let me say that I don't know what causes this. I haven't seen the problem personally, and I know of at least one installation that has a very large number of subscriptions that continues to work fine. This would lead me to believe that it's a resource issue. Specifically, I think that much of it may have to do with the use of the...

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Thanks to the astute comments of Bob and Iki, I became aware of an issue in MT-Notifier for the display for the site-wide configuration - specifically in setting the type of notifications to be sent. The value would be set correctly, but the display would not reflect that setting. It's fixed in version 2.4.2, available now.

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I've finally finished up with MT-Notifier version 2 (technically, 2.0.1). There aren't a whole lot of changes on the surface, but it should be faster and it has been upgraded to work with the Movable Type 3.0D interface. I've greatly enhanced the management functions for both administrators and users. I've also pulled the email notification out into a template, for those of you who want to muck with it but don't like changing the code.

This release includes an upgrade facility from v1.4.0 subscriptions, and also includes the Scripty Goddess conversion piece. I'm working on a conversion for EZ Subscribe to Comments, but I haven't had a chance to finish it up yet. It should be done...

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Required: MT3x

Marie b. asks if there's a way to stop MT from emailing you your own comments. There was back for 2.6 and 2.6x, and I posted that here, along with the info for stopping Blacklist from doing the same thing here and then again here for Blacklist v1.62.

Last year when MT 3.x came out, all that went out the window. I spent weeks trying to hack 3.0D and never figured it out - at which time I threw in the towel. Sure, it's frustrating to get my own comments emailed to me, and it's a pain in the ass, but the alternative was not getting anyone's comments emailed to me. That's just not an option since I like to reply to people who comment on my sites. Thankfully, marie b. brought...

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Question

When someone tries to add their address to my notification list, this error comes up:

You need to set the EmailAddressMain configuration value to your own email address in order to use notifications at lib/MT/App/NotifyList.pm line 33.

Answer

You need to set the EmailAddressMain variable for your email address in mt-config.cgi1. Download the file from your server in ASCII mode and open it in a plain text editor. Look for this setting2: EmailAddressMain you@alternate-email.com

Replace you@alternate-email.com with your preferred email...

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Question

I have a paid license. Do I have to keep the "Powered by Movable Type" links on my site and in my notification emails?

Answer

The "Powered by Movable Type" link in the default templates and the slug in the notification emails are governed by the license terms of "A Little Credit".

So, for those who hold a paid Personal or Commercial license, maintaining these credit links are optional; for those using a free Personal, or any Educational or Not for Profit license, maintaining these links is required. • To remove the credit links from your pages, edit your...

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We should probably included a full explanation of TrackBack and how it works, but there isn't enough time to do it justice.

Needs refinement. This comes in out of nowhere. better define "resource" and "communication."

Weblog comments still require the use of that particular site's interface and the content is limited to that one weblog unless it is cut, pasted, and posted elsewhere.

Released in August 2002 as both an open protocol and new functionality in MT version 2.2, TrackBack was designed to provide a means of notification through a small message called a ping that establishes a link between...

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Co-authored by Elise Bauer and Arvind Satyanarayan. Tutorial cross posted on Movalog and Learning Movable Type

Future posting is a convenient new feature in MT3.1x, allowing you to create an entry and have it automatically post at a future time. But before you can use this feature you need to set up a Cron Job on your server.

What is a Cron Job?

Cron is a task scheduler for unix servers. A cron job is a specific task that runs a certain number of times per minute, day, week, or month on your server. For example, you can use a cron job to automate a daily MySQL database backup. The main problem with cron jobs is that if they aren't properly configured they can cause high server...

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Just posted a new version of MT-Notifier. This version adds support for transferring Movable Type notifications into the Notifier system. These are created as entry-only subscriptions, as that's what they are in MT. As such, if you have a blog configured to send comments only (either directly, or through the site-wide option), these subscriptions will not be created. This behavior is by design, to mimic the MT function as closely as possible. Thanks for the suggestion, Simon!

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In the early days of MT 3, when I had unreg'd comments set to moderate, I really wanted to have an approval all button as I would read the comment in the email notification I received. Since then that feature request has not progressed so I decided to take matters into my own hands. As the screenshot shows, at the end of this hack you will end up with two buttons on the comments listing screen. This buttons will allow you to mass approve/moderate comments by checking the boxes of the corresponding entries.

First of all open lib/MT/App/CMS.pm and find on approximately line 32 the following

'approve_comment' => &approve_comment,

and right after it

'approve_confirm' =>...

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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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With broad platform integration of all the leading open standards, Movable Type has the potential to do much more, given additional expertise and knowledge on the user's part.

This chapters covers some of the more advanced features in addition to providing a starting point for more advanced topics not covered in this publication.

Architectural Overview

Movable Type is written in a highly modular Perl object-oriented style with an open code base (it's not open source -- an important distinction) that makes the browser-based tool quite flexible and easily modifiable, allowing it to adapt to any number of...

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Question

How do I convert from one database type to another?

Answer

Convert from Berkeley to SQL

To determine whether your server supports a SQL database, and the Perl libraries required to connect to it, run mt-check.cgi and look at the status for any of the following modules: DBD::mysql, DBD::Pg, or DBD::SQLite. If any of these are installed, your server will support that version of Movable Type. If none of these are installed, you will need to contact your host to have them installed if you wish to use a SQL database.

If you are interested in...

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Question

What is the definition of "Basic Support" as included with my license?

Answer

Basic Support covers reasonable use of the online ticket support system to request assistance with using the features of Movable Type in the manner for which they were designed.

Basic Support does not cover items such as the following: • Logging into your installation or hosting account to perform standard user functions • Server configuration or set-up • Installation of required or optional modules • Step-by-step assistance with installations or upgrades1 • Third-party plugins or any of the...

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2.5 (2002.10.08)

• Localization: the MT interface can be available in multiple languages, on a per-author setting. • Integrated Jay Allen's mt-search (Thanks, Jay!). We've made the following changes from version 1.31b: • Rewrote ``new comments search'' to make it more scalable (using recently_commented_on functionality) • Added a search log through the Activity Log. • Added search request throttling, to help against denial of service attacks. • Merged mt-search.cfg directives into mt.cfg....

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Choosing the Right Weblog Platform

Problem

You are trying to determine whether Movable Type or TypePad is right for you.

Solution

Decide what is most important to you: simplicity or control.

Discussion

TypePad is a complement to Movable Type, not a replacement. The two tools share a common core designed to address the needs of users with different requirements and capabilities. So, the question that will often be asked is, which is right the tool to use, Movable Type or TypePad? The answer comes down to simplicity vs. control. TypePad's centralized design and focus on...

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2.64 (2003.05.28)

• Replaced RSS 0.91 template in default templates with an RSS 2.0 template, from the RSS validator site. (Thanks to the RSS validator folks.) • Fixed some XSS bugs (comments, TrackBack, notification addresses, and search queries). (Reported by Dumky and others) • Fixed width of #content div in Clean stylesheet so that it doesn't require scrolling in Windows IE. • Fixed TrackBack auto-discovery and text filters--auto-discovery is now done against the filtered entry body rather than the unfiltered body. (Timothy Appnel) • Added <q>...

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Question

Can I pay Six Apart to install Movable Type for me, or upgrade my existing installation to the latest version?

Answer

Yes, we offer these services to those who have purchased a supported version of Movable Type.

Requirements Before We Begin

Please make sure to confirm that your host/server meets the requirements before requesting an installation, as the fee is non-refundable once we begin.

You can view the system requirements and get helpful information on choosing a web host in the Introduction to Installation and Upgrade in the Users Manual....

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My favorite part of developing Workflow was implementing a plugin system for it. Now it is time for me to tell you folks about all of the ways you can extend and customize Workflow for your specific situations.

Workflow Callbacks

All Workflow callbacks can be added to through the add_callback method of the MT module: MT->add_callback ('Workflow::CALLBACK_NAME', $priority, $plugin, &subroutine_ref);

Creating a Workflow plugin

To add your own custom code to Workflow, simply create place your code in a .pl file in the /plugins/Workflow/plugins/ directory. What code are you going to put in that file? I will cover that next.

Adding a permissions setup option

The list of permissions setup...

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• 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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