Introduction

Movable Type is the premier weblog publishing platform for businesses, organizations, developers, and web designers. Powerful customization gives you control over everything you publish and the elegant interface keeps things simple and clear.

Features

• Unlimited Blogging

Movable Type offers the ability to publish an unlimited number of blogs quickly and easily through a single installation of the application. And the platform supports posting by as many authors as you need, with no limit on the numbers of entries, comments, or TrackBacks the system...

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If you don't know what style sheets will do for you and your audience, you can review the spec online; or see Dr Web {Dr Web is now off-line - Ed.} for a quick tutorial. We'll be here when you return.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) save bandwidth, vastly reducing the size of your files when compared to old-style <FONT FACE> markup. With styles, your sites load faster. You work faster, too. Styles shave grueling hours of grunt-work off your design workload: one brief CSS document can style an entire domain; and when it's time to redesign, you can execute site-wide changes in minutes instead of days.

Style sheets bring genuine leading and sophisticated...

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Sooner or later, you may be called upon to create or maintain an internal website. If you work for a major corporation, or are contracted at one (as I am), internal sites may comprise the bulk of your work.

Don't be afraid of internal sites. In many respects, they are very similar to external sites. There are two main differences though. • Internal sites tend to be much larger. • They're geared toward employees, not the great unwashed masses.

Let's say you work for Fergus & McFungus Associates, a major corporation that produces lots of useless things that people just can't get enough of. The CEO, Angus McFungus, approaches you in his usual...

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For those who aren't using the dynamic publishing feature of Movable Type (see below), experiencing slow rebuild times is not an infrequent complaint especially as the size or complexity of the blog and its templates grows. While there are very good reasons to rebuild, there are no good reasons for it to be painfully slow.

In this essay, we will detail a number of reasons why your rebuild times might be slow and steps you can take to drastically reduce or completely eliminate the time you spend waiting for Movable Type to finish its work.

Upgrade to Movable Type 3

Has anything significant happened to you in the 16 months? Probably so. Well, the same can be said for Movable...

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04.28.2005

Blogs as a complement to newspapers

Forbes online picked up an Associated Press story about the eleven blogs being published by the editorial staff of the News & Record in North Carolina.

The broad range of Movable Type-powered blogs have earned high praise from others in the journalism business. As Editor & Publisher said:

"When the paper's overhaul is complete, it may be a model for the sort of 21st century paper that many journalism big thinkers have been talking about, chewing over, and confabbing on for the last few years," wrote the industry-watching magazine Editor & Publisher. "Greensboro will be the first place where this conceptually...

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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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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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In this article, we'll build a simple, template-driven site that separates style, content, and structure in your website. We'll create a cross-browser stylesheet switcher that remembers the user's preferences, touching on php variables, cookies, if statements, and including pages with require_once.

Separating style, content, and structure

The separation of style from content has become the bugbear of the HTML developer. Traditionally, we've used well-written CSS and XHTML to achieve this separation, and we've seen how much easier it is to update our sites or provide multiple styles when we write our markup this way. By adding some...

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Many users are experiencing intermittent 500 errors when using Movable Type, apparently as a result of certain Perl modules being upgraded by CPanel. (CPanel is an application which automates the management of shared hosting accounts.)

The modules are currently identified as DBI and DBD::mysql. Preliminary reports suggest that reverting these two modules to versions 1.47 and 2.9006 respectively will eliminate the 500 errors.

Some limited testing in a non-CPanel environment with the latest versions of these modules (1.48 and 3.0000 respectively) has not produced any similar performance issues to date; thus, it is not yet clear whether the newer modules alone are responsible for these...

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This plugin allows you to define search and replace parameters for elements you produce from Movable Type templates. Keep reading for the details.

More details forthcoming-- for now I'm just providing the download link. The readme.txt in the zip file has all the relevant information.

Availability

You can download this plugin here: mtregex-1_61.zip

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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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LinkEntryToFile is a plugin that modifies the interface of Movable Type. When the plugin is installed, you can specify a file on your server to link to the Entry Body or Extended Entry field. The linked file will be kept in sync with the entry, so that you can edit it in an external editor.

This plugin basically takes MT's handy "Link this template to a file" feature and applies it to entries. When using MT to manage certain types of content, especially content that contains extensive HTML formatting, it's useful to be able to use your favorite text-editing application, with syntax highlighting, Undo, search and replace, etc., without having to repeatedly copy and paste into the MT entry...

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NetflixAdvanced is a moveable type plugin that allows you to display the contents of your Netflix queue and send/recieve status on your weblog. It also allows you to set up a "private" listing of movies to be displayed on your site (regardless of the status of your Netflix queue). For each movie, NetflixAdvanced keeps track of the date it was entered, the date it was last modified, and optionally associates the movie with a blog entry (for movie reviews, etc). NetflixAdvanced stores each movie's movie ID number internally (an ID used by the Netflix site), and uses custom "scraper" code to fetch properties such as title, description, and images from Netflix for display in the weblog and in...

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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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Editing a Template using an External Editor

Problem

You would rather use a text or web page editor to edit a template.

Solution

Link an external file to your template and edit the file.

Discussion

Some users will find it easier to edit the template layouts in a text editor like BBEdit or a web page editor like Adobe Go Live instead of the Movable Type browser interface. You can optionally link a Movable Type template to an external file. This allows you to edit your templates while keeping the copy that is inside Movable Type synchronized with the external file.

In the field labeled "Link...

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GlobalSanitizeSpec

Movable Type has a sanitize function that is automatically run against all comments and TrackBacks submitted to your blog and also any content produced by a template tag with the sanitize attribute defined (see Global Filters for more details).

This is done to remove any code (HTML or otherwise) that could compromise the security of your site. The function works by only allowing certain HTML tags defined by this setting. Any other tags, and all processing instructions (PHP or Javascript, for example) are stripped.

By default, Sanitize is turned on...

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Bloggers who watch television love TiVo. And TiVo's just announced their TiVo Developer Challenge. If you're a Java hacker, check out the Sourceforge project to get the SDK, and win yourself a share of the available prizes.

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Deeje Cooley's posted a link to a Macromedia Blog Authoring Survey. If you maintain a blog regularly, they're looking for your feedback, and survey participants who finish all 30 questions are eligible to win an iPod mini.

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Site URL

The full URL (including http:// and your site's domain name) to your public weblog. This URL should not include the filename of your index file; for example, if your index file is located at http://www.example.com/blog/index.html, then the value for Site URL should be http://www.example.com/blog/.

This is a required field.

Example: http://www.example.com/blog/

You should never set your Site URL to the same value as your Movable Type application URL (i.e. your CGIPath). Publishing your weblog content to the Movable Type directory is a security hazard and can lead to...

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EarthLink is one of the biggest ISPs around, and they've just launched their first corporate weblog, EarthLink Protection Blog. The TypePad-powered blog is an attempt to educate customers about privacy, security, and malware, and it looks like it's off to a strong start, with a personable voice and a variety of interesting contributors. Thanks to Steve Rubel for the link.

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