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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 32 KB, 1740 words
Introduction
With the most difficult part of running Movable Type -- the installation -- behind you, it is time to get started using MT.
It all begins with The Movable Type Content Management System (CMS). This script is the heart and soul of what makes powerful weblog publishing possible.
The CMS contains the majority of the intelligence and work flow that makes Movable Type what it is. Whether it involves posting an entry, adding a colleague as an author, or publishing your content with a whole new style, it is the CMS that is doing the heavy lifting.
By default the CMS script is...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 27 KB, 1169 words
Introduction
Weblogs are not just a one-way medium for publishing. With the use of a singular, often conversational voice, enhanced by the loosely coupled nature of the Internet and lightweight syndication formats, weblogs are akin to conversations, regardless of the size and makeup of the audience. "A" writes about something on their mind -- an experience, the news, or a project's status. "B" reads it and expresses their take. "C" finds both posts interesting and notes something A and B has not mentioned and so on.
Not everyone has a weblog (sadly) and not everyone wants to make...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 29 KB, 1392 words
2.0b1 (2002.02.18)
• Lots of changes to the UI: leftnav, topnav, edit-entry screen, new-entry screen, etc. • Blog Editing Menu has now changed greatly to provide space for a welcome message (editable in blog config), blog stats, and links to 5 most recent posts and comments. • Added the ability to do NFS-safe database locking using .lock files and link(). This is not something most people should worry about; if it affects you, it's likely that you will know it. :) Thanks to Kelsey Cummings for ideas and code. • Hold and Release are now Draft and Publish...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 35 KB, 2142 words
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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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 News, News, 25 KB, 1482 words
Everyone loves having a great looking site, but for most people who aren't well versed in the technical details of HTML and CSS, tweaking your blog's look isn't easy. Being able to easily pick a style from a rich library of choices is essential.
So, we made the move in Movable Type 3.2 to a new set of Six Apart standard styles that are shared with both our TypePad and LiveJournal services. There's an immediate benefit of being able to use any one of a number of existing styles. But in the future, with over ten million blogs sharing the same single set of styles and markup, there's going to be a new and rapidly expanding base of additional styles available that we think is...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 54 KB, 3878 words
With the most difficult part of running Movable Type -- the installation -- behind you, it is time to get started using MT.
It all begins with The Movable Type Content Management System (CMS). This script is the heart and soul of what makes powerful weblog publishing possible.
The CMS contains the majority of the intelligence and work flow that makes Movable Type what it is. Whether it involves posting an entry, adding a colleague as an author, or publishing your content with a whole new style, it is the CMS that is doing the heavy lifting.
By default the CMS script is named mt.cgi, although this...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 53 KB, 4094 words
All roads in weblogging lead to posting entries, for without posted entries there is no weblog. It should come as no surprise that the Entries Listing and New/Edit Entry screens are where most users will find themselves when working with Movable Type.
In these screens a user can view what entries are in a weblog, filter them based on certain criteria, make new posts and edit existing ones.
Entries Listing
The Entries Listing screen displays either all the entries for the weblog or just the entries made by you. What gets displayed depends on whether or not you have been granted Edit All Posts access.
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Movalog, Tutorials, 34 KB, 1518 words
On the forums, someone recently commented on how the listings in MT could be improved with greater sorting flexibility. I thought that it was a very good idea and so after a bit of hacking managed to get the entry listings to be sorted, it would be easy to adapt this for the comments and trackbacks listing.
This hack will add ascending and descending sorting capabilities to the title and date fields. The rest you can use the Filter option for.
First, you'll need CMS.pm, around line 2411 in the list_entries sub, find the following
my %arg = ( 'sort' => 'created_on', direction => $sort_direction, ($limit eq 'none' ? () : (limit =>...
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Six Apart News, News, 52 KB, 4255 words
We have just released Movable Type v3.14 which fixes the issue of extreme loads witnessed on servers under the strain of a massive spam attack. Because these attacks are increasing in both frequency and severity, we strongly recommend that all Movable Type users install this update. This is particularly important for any installation that is visible to the public on the web.
This release is a free update for Movable Type v3.x users and has been thoroughly tested both in-house, by our ProNet members and also by many of the web hosting companies initially affected by the problem. If you already purchased Movable Type or downloaded the free version, youââ¬â¢ll be able to download...
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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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Brad Choate, Plugins, 170 KB, 8520 words
Now that Movable Type supports a real database with the MySQL support in version 2.2, it's time for some new tags that can let you select entries, comments and categories using any criteria you'd like. Click the 'more' link for full docs and download link.
Availability
You can download this plugin here: mtsql-1_52.zip
Installation
To install, place the 'sql.pl' file in your Movable Type 'plugins'...
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Don't Back Down, Plugins, 8 KB, 427 words
A little over a month ago, I implemented a new plugin to handle comment moderation. I still haven't released this publicly, as I don't particularly care for the way I did it, and it's not configurable at all at this point. That may change in the near future, as it seems that the plugin is working pretty well.
Over the last five weeks, I've received a grand total of 26 comments that could be considered spam. Not a large number, by any means. In fact, not much at all until today, when I received 20 of them (and it's not even noon). Out of those 26 comments, only 1 made it through my little plugin.
The only one that did was on The Angler Fish, easily my most popular entry in terms of...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 22 KB, 482 words
MTEntries
A container tag which iterates over a list of published entries from a weblog. The default behavior is set according to the "Entries to Display" and "Entry Order" controls in the General Settings. These settings can be overridden with the use of these optional attributes.
Attributes: • author - Filters the entries by the given author's username. • category - Filters the entries by the given category label. Multiple categories can be defined in the value of the attribute and can include boolean "AND" and "OR" logic. Boolean logic may not be mixed. For instance "Foo AND Bar...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 89 KB, 9750 words
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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Six Apart Knowledgebase, Manuals, 26 KB, 847 words
Question
A list of all known issues in the latest version of Movable Type. Please be sure to review this list before using the product or opening a support ticket.
Answer
As of Version 3.16, released April 18, 2005 • Configuration • A new application method ("app_path") prevents the login cookie from being set when Movable Type is installed in the root folder, rather than a subfolder. See Keep getting login screen for the solution. • Archives • It is impossible to produce files with no file extension by using the File extension for archive...
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