The OpenID Server plugin for Movable Type allows you to use your Movable Type installation as an identity server for sites which accept the OpenID decentralized authentication system.

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This plugin enables the use of any OpenID-compatible site as an authentication service when commenting on a Movable Type blog. Optimized for for Movable Type 3.2, the plugin offers a per-blog preference for displaying the LiveJournal user icon for LiveJournal users.

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Brad Fitzpatrick from our LiveJournal team will be speaking at the planetwork.net Monthly Networking event here in San Francisco this Thursday, discussing the new OpenID decentralized identity system. The format is a brief discussion of several identity-related ideas, followed by informal discussion, and only a small contribution is requested, so it's well worth taking the time to stop by if you're in the Bay Area.

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Power Tools is one central place to get lots of open source code and components that Six Apart's team has released. Power Tools help you build better sites, apps, and platforms and to connect your applications to the rest of the web.

Most Power Tools code is released under open source licenses, making it possible to build on the work here in your own applications and services. Note: Power Tools are provided as technology demonstrations for our community, but we can't offer technical support for their use, installation, or configuration.

Plugins

• StyleCatcher 1.01: StyleCatcher is a simple but powerful plugin built for Movable Type 3.2 that lets you easily swap out any one of...

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UPDATE: Version 1.21 has been released that fixes the password protection bug under static publishing. Please download the new version and re-enable protection on all your blogs.

MT Protect is a plugin that allows you to easily protect entries so only authorized users can read the entry, comments and trackbacks. This new version has been built for Movable Type 3.2 and is feature packed: • Cross-database compatibility - MT Protect is now compatible with PostGreSQL and SQLite. The only problem with using either of these two databases is that if you haven't got the necessary modules installed, you cannot use Password Protection (this is further explained in the docs) • OpenID Support - MT Protect now allows you to protect entries/weblogs using OpenID. Protecting an entry using OpenID works exactly like protecting an entry using Typekey and best of all is that you can create OpenID groups. You may also be interested to know that Movable Type 3.2 comes with OpenID support, look in the extras/ folder!M...

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November 2005

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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If you're going to be in Portland for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention this week, be sure to check out the session on LiveJournal's backend that Brad Fitzpatrick will be presenting as part of the database track.

A number of members of our LiveJournal development team will also be lurking around, particularly near the database and scalability conversations, as well as in sessions related to identity where OpenID might be relevant.

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Alistair Shrimpton, who heads up our Six Apart efforts in the U.K., has teamed up with Hugh MacLeod to create a Blog Designers wiki where designers can list themselves and their skills.

It's a great outlet for ProNet members to solicit work by linking to a personal profile. If you're updating with your own listing, be sure to include your name, an email address for contact, a phone number (lots of clients still like to use the phone!) and links to your profile site as well as some example sites.

A good suggestion any time that you're listing your professional credentials is to include as many methods of contact as possible (IM or Skype contact information can't hurt if you're...

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One of our goals for Movable Type 3.2 was to make the system more pleasant to work with every day. And one of the small improvements in this version that we think will help save the time (and sanity!) of all of us who use Movable Type every day is a revamp of the way authors can select multiple categories for an entry.

Movable Type has long supported assigning multiple categories to any entry, and since version 3.1, you've also been able to easily create an infinite number of subcategories as well. But the default drop-down box hadn't evolved to accommodate these powerful new options, and solutions like putting a giant collection of checkboxes next to every entry would add to amount...

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There are gobs of plugins available for Movable Type. I'd bet that most people who use version 3.2 are using the SpamLookup and Nofollow plugins, and many of you probably have at least a few others installed.

Of all the plugins you use, what are the three most essential? (Yes, you have to narrow it down to three!) Which ones make your site run the way it does, provide you the options you want, or otherwise improve your Movable Type installation?

My favorite three? • SpamLookup is essential for keeping a site spam-free. It does a great job, but you probably already knew that. • SmartyPants provides typographically-correct punctuation: curly quotes, ellipsis, and em-dashes...

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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 specifically for v3.2 have been created. Some of the new capabilities of these plugins include plugin actions for acting on checked items in a listing screen, UI enhancements thanks to BigPAPI, feedback scoring and Junk processing.

We're happy to announce...

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07.27.2005

Dynamic Publishing support for PostgreSQL and SQLite

It's a common refrain for us to talk about Movable Type's wide platform support, but we really are committed to making sure Movable Type's full power is available on the widest variety of platforms. It's an investment that takes a lot of care and attention, but we think it's well worth the effort.

For example, take databases. Movable Type has long supported multiple databases, with MySQL and Berkeley DB being among the most popular. But two mature, popular open-source database technologies that a lot of our users have requested have also part of our platform support for over two years: PostgreSQL and...

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08.31.2005

Simple Example Templates for Movable Type 3.2

Chris Vannoy has posted some simple Movable Type templates based on the new default templates in Movable Type, but with much of the XHTML structure stripped out so they're easier to read. As Chris explains in his following post, they're not designed to be used on an actual site, since the styling would be pretty ugly by default, but they're a useful basis for creating your own completely custom design if you just need a place to get started.

We'll be producing additional documentation about all the new abilities that templates and styles have in Movable Type 3.2, but this is a great place to start if you...

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