08.28.2002

TrackBack at ConJosé

Bill Humphries has set up Con dot Jose, a TrackBack enabled metablog for those attending and posting about WorldCon:ConJosé. In addition to standard MT TrackBack functionality, Bill has enabled Non-MT users to be able to ping to site.

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08.27.2002

BlogMD

The BlogMD Initiative has been launched, "devoted ... to advancing the work of making the Blogosphere an easier neighborhood to get around in". We're all for defining (and following) standards in APIs and metadata across weblogging tools. We look forward to seeing and implementing the...

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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.

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11.29.2001

Donors List Update

The Movable Type donor list...

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3.2 Public Beta

UPDATE The beta blog is live. Read all the entries and download 3.2, there's plenty to play with! Jay's just posted an announcement to ProNet with some juicy details. Movable Type 3.2 will be going into a beta sometime tomorrow...

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MT 3.1 Screenshots

Movable Type 3.1 is the feature upgrade that everyone was looking for in 3.0D. There are three main new features, dynamic templating, post scheduling and subcategories. Lets take a tour around these new features. These are some screenshots from the...

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Six Apart has a variety of support options and self-service resources for you to choose from. This chapter provides pointers to those options so that you can get help when you need it. An overview of Movable Type support options can be found online at http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support.

Users who have purchased a paid license for Movable Type 3.0 or above get access to Basic and Advanced personal support options.

Basic Support includes access to our Members-Only Knowledge Base and use of an online help ticket system to request assistance with Movable Types features. To access the Basic Support...

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This is the category name that is displayed on the published weblog using either the MTCategoryLabel, MTArchiveTitle or MTEntryCategory tags depending on the context at hand.

You should choose the label carefully because it is used in the URLs of your category archive. Changing the category name after publishing entries assigned to that category will break incoming links.

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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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MT Protect 1.2

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...

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MT Protect 1.1

Hot on the heels of v1.0, here's version 1.1. The only new feature is the availability of dynamic tags, i.e. those of you that wanted to use MT Protect on dynamic templates now can! Download MT-Protect_1.1.zip and follow the installation...

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I further discussed my previous post with many pepole and felt I needed to clarify some doubts I and many others had about the new dynamic MT, so here's a follow up post ! Brad explained how the new MT/Smarty/PHP system will work. The template gets pulled from the database; there is a pass over it to make it smarty-compatible; then it gets executed by smarty. so if you have a real simple template like this: <MTEntries> <MTEntriesHeader><ul></MTEntriesHeader> <li><MTEntryTitle></li> <MTEntriesFooter></ul></MTEntriesFooter> </MTEntries>

it gets changed to this: {Entries} {EntriesHeader}<ul>{/EntriesHeader} <li>...

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Update: A 2.01 release of MT-IfEmpty is now available, which mainly adds support for dynamic publishing in MT 3.1x.

You can download this plugin here: mtifempty-2_01.zip.

Usage: <MTIfEmpty var="EntryTitle">(untitled)</MTIfEmpty> <$MTEntryTitle$>

Embedded expression support works like this: <MTIfNotEmpty expr="[MTEntries days='1']1[/MTEntries]"> We...

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05.22.2002

Wisdom Wanted

Want to contribute to Essential Blogging, the O'Reilly book that Ben and I co-authored along with Cory Doctorow, Rael Dornfest, Shelly Powers and Scott Johnson?

Rael has issued a call for submissions from webloggers who have pearls of wisdom and anecdotes to share with the weblogging community.

Not up to writing? Well, Essential Blogging is holding a public review where you, the readers, can constructively comment on the book's content. Read more about the public review on the O'Reilly weblog of our editor, Nat Torkington.

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05.14.2002

Default Templates and...

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3.16 (2005.04.13)

Security

• Made several important improvements with regards to application authentication and security.

Notifications

• Fixed ``Send Notifications'' feature for multiple recipients. • Fixed a bug where comment notifications weren't being sent for some moderated comments.

Error checking

• Improved validation of user input in many places. Leading and trailing whitespace is trimmed from author names, category names, and blog names. None of these can be left blank except for a known issue with editing the...

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07.24.2002

TrackBack at OSCON

If you're at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, then you might be interested in checking out TrackBack at OSCON. The purpose of this page is to supplement ORA's existing weblog coverage and provide a listing of weblog entries regarding OSCON-related topics.

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07.16.2002

Support Forums Moved

The support forum is now running on a new server. If you use the forums regularly, you will probably notice that it's faster.

We've tried to make the transition seamless, but in anything like this there are bound to be problems. And the main problem here is...

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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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Template Tags Bookmarklet for Safari

Safari users can now enjoy the Template Tag Bookmarklet by simple installing the Saft extension (which is a highly recommended extension), grabbing the template tags plugin and unpacking it into ~/Library/Application Support/Saft/Sidebar/. Alternatively, you can also open the destination folder...

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Updated Template Tag Reference

Some of you may remember the MT Tabs bookmarklet I had created oh so long ago that was quite simply a page that listed all the template tags available for...

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Discussion cross posted on Movalog and Learning Movable Type

One of the key features that Six Apart promotes about Movable Type is MT's ability to publish dynamically. What is dynamic publishing? And what are the benefits (and downsides) to dynamic publishing over static publishing?

Elise Bauer, editor of Learning Movable Type, and Arvind Satyanarayan, author of Movalog, discuss some of the pros and cons of dynamic publishing. Non-techie luddite-wannabe Elise shies away from anything that seems like it might not be worth the effort and so far hasn't even tried dynamic publishing. Plugin creator and MT hack-master Arvind has embraced dynamic publishing with his usual boundless...

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The name of the commenter.

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MTCommenterNameThunk

Populates the comenter_name Javascript variable.

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04.24.2003

Milestones

In case you haven't seen it, we made a few announcements yesterday.

In a couple weeks, we'll be going into greater details about how current Movable Type users are going to be able to benefit from the service. Stay tuned.

It's incredibly exciting to see how far we've come with Movable Type/Six Apart and our users and donors have a played a great deal in helping us achieve these milestones. Thank you!

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04.21.2003

Support Forum Upgrade

To increase the usability of the support forums, we've installed new forum software that will provide more robust searching...

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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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If you have setup a sideblog/linkblog then you will notice that the rss it generates is rather annoying. If you look at the RSS through an aggregator such as Bloglines and you click on the title of the entry, it takes you to the entry permalink. This is fine with most blogs but in sideblogs its rather annoying. I would much prefer being taken to the page in question rather than the entry permalink. To understand what I mean look at MovableBLOG Asides rss file, you will see the link element links to the page he is talking about, click the title it will not take you to the entry permalink. This means that you will need to extract the uri specified in the href tags.

To accomplish this you will...

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07.13.2005

Announcing Movable Type 3.2 Beta

Over the past two weeks, we've been telling the world a lot about Movable Type 3.2 and now it's time to show it.

Today, we are releasing the first beta version of Movable Type 3.2 and we encourage everyone to download it and see for themselves.

You can find the details over on the Beta Blog. We hope to see you over there!

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07.05.2005

Intermittent "500 Server Errors" in MT (RESOLVED)

If you are experiencing intermittent "500 Server Errors" while using Movable Type and are using MySQL for your database, we are aware of the cause...

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