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.
Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 29 KB, 2252 words
Updated Sept 14, 2004
A sideblog is a separate weblog which appears in the sidebar of your main weblog. Sideblogs are often used as a convenient way to list out interesting links, something akin to a frequently-updated, public list of IE favorites. Rather than mixing in your "this link is cool" entries in with all of your other entries, with the accompanying overhead of code for individual entries, comments and trackbacks, you can streamline your links into a linkblog.
A great example of a linkblog can be found at MovableBLOGthe Asides section in the right sidebar.
Making a sideblog is pretty straightforward; it can be accomplished by creating a new weblog in Movable Type and using...
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Movalog, News, 25 KB, 435 words
Well I'm pleased to announce Movalog's Sideblog. I needed a sideblog just to post links to stuff I see and rather than give it a whole entry here felt it better to setup a sideblog. I will merge the two blogs together soon including the RSS. http://sideblog.movalog.com/
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Movalog, Tutorials, 28 KB, 817 words
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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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 14 KB, 146 words
David Ely has a clever writeup about Setting up a Sideblog in TypePad shows you how to use advanced templates to include more than one of your TypePad blogs on a single page.
It's not for beginners, but if you're experienced with template tags and want to do something more complex with your TypePad site, it's a very clever solution.
Trackbacks:
une very stylish fille - sideblogs in TypePad - September 11, 2004 01:44 AMDoc wrote a great post about how to recreate his Quotation of the Day feature in TypePad, which inspired me to create a sideblog (and ultimately redesign everything to accomadate it). His instructions are very clear so I suggest you
Previous Entry: Blogs go Big Business...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 31 KB, 1233 words
UPDATE: Multiblog 1.1 has been released which fixes bugs with the GlobalListings. I have updated the tags in this tutorial to correspond to MultiBlog only.
Have you got two or more blogs that you would like to 'merge.' By merge I mean show all entries on one page, chronologically and inline - for a greater understand take a look at my blog. The front page shows entries from the main blog plus the sideblog - the sideblog entries are formatted differently, the little bars !
The plugins you will need are: * MultiBlog * GlobalListings
Multiblog does have the GlobalListings plugin built into it, but at the time of writing this tutorial that section of the plugin didn't work. So I am using...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 33 KB, 1306 words
Updated 09/05 - Search Throttle
The search form that comes with default MT templates is very limited in what it lets you do - basically it only lets you search the current blog and allows you to not specify any oother options. Here are some things you can do with searches. The code listed here can go into any template but the code must be placed within the search form ie <form>....</form>. Also each block of code is independent. You don't need to use previous code for it to work - as long as it is placed within the search form it will work no matter what other code you have or have not implemented !
Search Where ?
Replace the search form code you have with something like...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 25 KB, 1182 words
There are several situations in which you might want to combine two or more blogs into one. You might want to create a "Portal" blog which displays the most recent entries or headlines of entries from various blogs. You might want to create a Sideblog or Linkblog (see tutorial). Or you might want to have what looks to be just one blog (such as Learning Movable Type) but is actually a combination of several.
The tools you have at your disposal are David Raynes' MultiBlog plugin, PHP Includes, SSI - Server Side Includes, and RSS, among others. This tutorial will focus on the easiest of these alternatives - how to use the MultiBlog plugin to combine blogs from a single installation of...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 37 KB, 2028 words
Co-authored by Arvind Satyanarayan and Elise Bauer Tutorial cross posted on Movalog and Learning Movable Type
With the release of Movable Type 3.1 comes a new and powerful feature - Dynamic Publishing. To take advantage of Dynamic Publishing, you need to edit or create a file on your Apache server called .htaccess as explained in the Movable Type Manual. htaccess files can give you extra control over your server, allowing you to password protect directories, enable server side includes, generate custom error messages, and block users by IP address among other things. (See this Guide to .htaccess for more information.)
Note: You should really know what you are doing before...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 29 KB, 1874 words
Co-authored by Arvind Satyanarayan and Elise Bauer Tutorial cross posted on Movalog and Learning Movable Type
With the release of Movable Type 3.1 comes a new and powerful feature - Dynamic Publishing. To take advantage of Dynamic Publishing, you need to edit or create a file on your Apache server called .htaccess as explained in the Movable Type Manual. htaccess files can give you extra control over your server, allowing you to password protect directories, enable server side includes, generate custom error messages, and block users by IP address among other things. (See this Guide to .htaccess for more information.)
Note: You should really know what you are doing before...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 30 KB, 1004 words
In the early days of MT 3, when I had unreg'd comments set to moderate, I really wanted to have an approval all button as I would read the comment in the email notification I received. Since then that feature request has not progressed so I decided to take matters into my own hands. As the screenshot shows, at the end of this hack you will end up with two buttons on the comments listing screen. This buttons will allow you to mass approve/moderate comments by checking the boxes of the corresponding entries.
First of all open lib/MT/App/CMS.pm and find on approximately line 32 the following
'approve_comment' => &approve_comment,
and right after it
'approve_confirm' =>...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 27 KB, 1002 words
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Working with Style Catcher
With 3.2 came the very nice StyleCatcher plugin that allowed you to easily manage and apply themes or styles to your blogs. This tutorial will show you how to make your repository work Style Catcher. Note, this tutorial won't show...
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Posted on 10/22/2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
CustomFields 1.12
UPDATE: I've just pushed out a silent update that fixes a problem with custom entry field descriptions not showing. Thanks Nilesh! A new version of CustomFields is available that fixes four bugs that people found;CustomFields...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 28 KB, 1017 words
Smarty Docs
Now that Smarty is built into MT, you've got a whole load of new features that you can use. Just have a look at the documentation everything discussed in those docs are available to MT users, the only difference is instead of single braces you need to use double, for example where in the Smarty docs it gives you a line like this {include file="sidebar.php"}
when you implement that into MT it will need to become {{include file="sidebar.php"}}
This was chosen over the single braces because the single braces can cause problems when you start writing Javascript. None-the-less if you really wish to use single braces, find in your mtview.php template the following line (thanks...
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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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Movalog, Tutorials, 31 KB, 1012 words
I find the Configure Active Plugins list on the MT front page very useful, however this list has been getting longer and longer and I install more and more plugins that register on there. Eventually this bugged me (big surprise eh?) and I decided to move that to its own page. Click the thumbnail to the side for a larger image.
First open up lib/MT/App/CMS.pm and find around line 40
'list_blogs' => &list_blogs,
and add right underneath it
'list_plugins' => &list_plugins,
Next around line 342 (at the end of sub list_blog) fine
$param{no_breadcrumbs} = 1; $app->build_page('list_blog.tmpl', \%param); }
and add after it
sub list_plugins { my $app = shift;...
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