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, 70 KB, 5607 words
One of Movable Type's most powerful traits is its flexibility to adapt to practically any weblog design or use you can imagine. For the average user, most of this flexibility comes from Movable Type's template engine.
The template engine is crucial to automating the process of publishing and is what makes a publishing system go. When a rebuild is performed, templates are merged with content to create a page that visitors can view in their browsers.
These templates are what control the design and layout of your site and what keeps that design separate from the content. Templates describe where you want...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 26 KB, 1073 words
2.51 (2002.10.29)
• Added Windows right-click bookmarklet functionality, where you can use a Post to MT Blog right click option to open the bookmarklet. Thanks to Anil Dash for the code. • Added a generic <MTElse> tag, which can be used to supply an ``else'' condition to any conditional. Thanks to Brad Choate for the code. • Added an <$MTEntryPermalink$> tag, which does the right thing when displaying the link for an entry: if an individual archive, it is not followed by an anchor; otherwise, it is. • When rebuilding files, only rewrite the...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 63 KB, 5850 words
06.30.2005
New in Movable Type 3.2: A home for administrators
One of Movable Type's biggest strengths is the platform's support for an unlimited number of weblogs. Once you've got a thriving community of bloggers creating entries and publishing their thoughts, though, it quickly becomes necessary to manage the weblogs on your system.
To meet this need, we've introduced an entire new area of functionality in Movable Type 3.2: The System Overview. We've chosen the System Overview as the first feature to highlight in this new release because it represents a single home for administrators. It's one place to go to oversee everything that's happening across your...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 33 KB, 1200 words
One feature I find lacking in MT is yearly archives. A yearly archive basically is just a page of twelve calendars - one for each month of the year - see mine in action here with permalinks to the days.
Now there are two ways you can do this, one easier than the other. The first - harder - way to do it is installing Brad Choate's PerlScript Plugin and then follow the steps he has laid out here. I call this the harder method because for every year you are blogging you need to create a new index template and call the template module.
The second method, all you need to do is setup the archiving and MT will do a lot for you - including tidying up you monthly archive list ! You will need...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 45 KB, 3290 words
Over time a lot of content will be generated by a site, especially a weblog or news-oriented site. Finding that content in a reverse chronological archive can be difficult and frustrating. Local search can make a site more accessible by providing readers with the means to dynamically zero in on the content they are looking for.
Built-In Search
Movable Type's public search interface originally began as an add-on to MT developed by Jay Allen before formal plug-ins existed. The code was later integrated into MT version 2.5.
The search engine provides a rudimentary means of querying an MT system for...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 27 KB, 1471 words
Movable Type uses a template system to generate the pages of your weblog. To change which content elements and how they are displayed on the pages of your blog, you need to make changes to the appropriate templates.
Selecting "Manage Templates" from the sidebar navigation in your weblog edit screen will show you the list of templates, but what do they all do? And, if you are trying to conserve storage space on your server, are there any you can delete?
Index Templates
Index templates have individual output files, specific to the template. Let's go down the list.
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• Atom Index - The Atom Index produces an Atom syndication feed, atom.xml for those...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 19 KB, 927 words
09.13.2005
Movable Type 3.2 is huge in Japan
Our Japanese Six Apart team has released Movable Type 3.2 Beta. Featuring all the improvements and new capabilities in Movable Type 3.2, this version is completely localized in Japanese and supports all of the plugin functionality and templating options of the U.S. version that was released a few weeks ago.
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09.11.2005
New Blog Job Listings
Over on the Professional Network members blog, we've been regularly posting even more job listings for people with experience on Six Apart platforms, especially Movable Type. In the past week...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 25 KB, 799 words
You have the option of either importing the entries as yourself - the author that you are currently logged in as - or creating new authors for each author name found in the original set of entries. For example, if your weblog is/was a team weblog, you would probably want to recreate the original set of authors, rather than import all of the entries as yourself. Otherwise you probably wish to simply import the entries as yourself.
If importing the entries as you, check the Import as me box.
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 17 KB, 615 words
08.31.2004
Dynamic Template Tutorials
If you're working with Movable Type 3.1's new support for dynamic templates, you'll want to check out some of the great tutorials created by community members during the beta. Gregory Blake has a good overview and tbuddy digs into the details of updating your .htaccess, if necessary. Nice work, guys!
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08.30.2004
Plugins Directory Relaunches
The Movable Type Plugins Directory has relaunched as an official Six Apart website, featuring a whole new look, a simpler organization, and a list of plugins which have been tested with Movable Type 3.0.
Take a look through the new...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 24 KB, 1282 words
• Once an entry or category has been set to receive TrackBack pings, disabling pings for it through the UI will not actually refuse pings to that item but will suppress display of those pings. • Rebuilds will fail silently after saving an entry if a problem exists in your templates (for example, mismatched tags or a missing include module). An error will be shown, however, upon manual rebuild using the "Rebuild Site" functionality. • The nofollow plugin will cause a spurious warning for users with older versions of Perl upon running mt-check.cgi, mt-testbg.cgi or any of the...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 93 KB, 8073 words
10.29.2004
Firefox on the March
Red Herring's got an interview with Rob Davis, the man behind the campaign to advertise Firefox in the New York Times. It's especially good timing for promoting every geek's favorite browser, since the updated roadmap shows the browser scheduled for release on November 9th.
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10.29.2004
Advice to the bloglorn
Metaforix President Lois C. Ambash has some advice for those afraid of business blogging. It's a solid set of guidelines, but we also loved the praise for TypePad:
As a novice blogger, I chose TypePad for my own blog, and I couldn't be happier. The...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 30 KB, 1313 words
The first question/answer from Ask Arvind...
Lea writes:
Can you provide tips on how to have cruft-free URLs (a la diveintomark.org, as well as others)? I already have this employed in my blog, but a lot of others don't.
The diveintomark tutorial in question can be found here.
First of all what is cruft ? Cruft is basically the extensions of webpages for example .php, .html etc. In the field of SEO it is meant to be very bad. Here's a - hopefully easier - method to have cruft-free urls. For this to work you will need to install the Short-Titles plugin (thanks Amit!)
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Blank out "File Extension for Archive Files" under Weblog Config → Preferences •
Change the Archive File...
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alogblog, Plugins, 26 KB, 988 words
I'm happy I could provide this plugin to the MT community.
This plugin, BigTemplateWindow, is for a really big template editing window. The size of template editing box is only limited by that of your monitor. :) First I developed this just for a big template box. In the process of doing it, several useful features was added. I hope almost all MT users could be a little happy by using this.
Continue reading "BigTemplateWindow" »
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 93 KB, 8407 words
09.29.2004
Behind the Scenes - Brenna Koch
Behind The Scenes is a new series where we here at Six Apart discuss what tools (software, technology, etc.) we use to do our work.
I'm Brenna Koch and I work in technical support for Six Apart. If you're curious, "Cook" is how you pronounce my last name. I usually hear "Cotch" since that's how it is said in some areas and I also hear more ah... interesting variations. But now you know.
We have many browsers around in the support department but my favorite is Safari. I utilize keyboard commands with my bookmarks bar for fast access on the sites I use all the time like my test weblogs and pages in the help system...
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