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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Sometimes you would like to display the age of an entry as compared to a specific date. In the case, of my daughter's blog, I've displayed her actual age at the time of each post, based on her birth date and the authored-on date of the entry.

Updated to support time difference too.

Updated to correct date_delta function's accuracy.

This is a Movable Type/PHP tip. I haven't...

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0.09 (2001.10.06)

• Improved look and functionality of default templates; also added default templates for all archive types. • Set more default options when creating a new blog or editing 'First Blog'. • Added instructions for exporting NewsPro entries into the correct format; thanks to Jeremy W for sending along the instructions, which are now in the manual. • Added author attribute to MTEntries tag, so you can grab all of the posts by a particular author (can also be combined with category and lastn). (Jeremy W) • In comment notifications, the...

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If you have ever read a weblog you will quite certainly have discovered the term "Permalink«. What is this? And why can't you find this type of link in a new Movable Type project?

Avoid Moving Targets

When opening a weblog you will initially see the main index page. This page lists the most recently published entries, usually sorted by date. The contents of this page is coming and going. An entry, which is there today, may not be there tomorrow.

Sometimes you want to link to another weblog's entry. Maybe you like that entry so much that you want to link to it from your own website. However, the index page is not well suited as the target for this link.

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Version 2.0 of Movable Type is now released. This version of Movable Type is still free for personal or non-profit use; note that version 2.0 is not free, however, for commercial or for-profit use. See the FAQ for more details. Existing users of versions 1.0-1.4 should use the upgrade distribution to update their MT installation, and should follow the upgrade instructions. Before upgrading, you will need to back up your MT databases and export your entries and comments, as a precaution.

In addition to bug fixes and improvements to general system stability, this release adds the following features: • Multiple category support: the ability to assign multiple categories per...

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03.11.2002

2.0 Release Dates

The release of version 2.0 of Movable Type is around the corner. Progress has been slowed down as of late, because we moved, and we are now in Austin, TX for SXSW. But on our return--or shortly thereafter--we plan to launch version 2.0. Specifically, the release will be sometime between March 15 and March 20.

If you have a question to us pending at the moment, please bear with us, as we don't have a lot of time to check email.

Posted by Benjamin Trott at 08:15 AM | Permalink

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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 descending chronologically • Mail this entry • IP banning for comments...

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While my earlier example illustrated the concept of automating pagination with Smarty in your Movable Type archives, I had a couple of problems with it.

First and foremost was that if someone "hacked" the URL, to submit their own value for a start range, then the links wouldn't work right. They might start on entry number 2 instead of entry 1, and while the previous link would say 1-1 (itself a bit ugly), it would actually render entries starting with 1, but the page would biuld through the default limit or the end of the category, whichever came first.

So I played with adding a user-specified limit (with a maximum size). But it had the same problem, in that if someone specified a...

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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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We're happy to announce that this afternoon we released Movable Type 3.1.

We're extremely excited about this new release, and also about how quickly this free update is coming on the heels of Movable Type 3.0 Developer Edition. Whereas it took more than a year between 2.6 and 3.0, we're now releasing 3.1 only three months after 3.0 Developer Edition. The release of 3.0, combined with the changes in licensing, has allowed us to recommit resources to Movable Type development, and that's a big reason why you're seeing major features in a free update released so soon after 3.0.

Here's a look at the major features in Movable Type 3.1.

DYNAMIC PAGES

The Best of Both Worlds

The most prominent new...

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Skip navigation. • TypePad • Movable Type • LiveJournal • About Us • Support

August 2004

08.31.2004

Movable Type 3.1 Launched

We're happy to announce that this afternoon we released Movable Type 3.1.

We're extremely excited about this new release, and also about how quickly this free update is coming on the heels of Movable Type 3.0 Developer Edition. Whereas it took more than a year between 2.6 and 3.0, we're now releasing 3.1 only three months after 3.0 Developer Edition. The release of 3.0, combined with the changes in licensing, has allowed us to...

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Movable Type 3.16 has been released! The upgrade was rather painless - most of the difficulty lies, as it always does, in making sure that I get the plugins in the old install into the new one (I typically install into a new directory rather than try and update an old one). Thus far, looks like it's going okay. Please let me know if not.

One of the coolest features is that the category list on the entry is now sorted with sub-categories. Sweetness indeed! I don't know if they took Arvind's hack to do it, but someone took the time to make it happen, and it looks good.

I'll be spending the next day or so getting everything running as it should, then I'll likely do a bit of plugin...

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Hacking Movable Type

I finally got my copy of Hacking Movable Type and finished reading it last night. Written by the biggest names in the Movable Type community, the 300 pages of Movable Type goodness guide you through getting the most out...

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Posted on 08/21/2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Firefox Search Plugins

I had forgotten to share these little goodies that I frequently use. The little search bar in Firefox is indespensible for me and I have all sorts of search engines there including many Movable Type resources. Here are three...

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CustomFields has been bumped to v1.11 due to some odd bugs with the v1.1 distribution whereby I seem to have not included the up-to-date files. I recommend everyone who uses CustomFields upgrades to v1.11 to ensure that you see all the new features you should be seeing. Many thanks to JSDopefish who reported the issue on my support forums. Go grab the update.

As a sidenote, I've become aware that the donate buttons scattered across Movalog have stopped working. Paypal has thrown my account into an incredibly restricted mode which I will only be able to sort out this weekend. A big thank you to all the readers who notified me of this problem.

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I had forgotten to share these little goodies that I frequently use. The little search bar in Firefox is indespensible for me and I have all sorts of search engines there including many Movable Type resources. Here are three that I use most frequent. To install just click the link and click ok on the dialog box that appears, restart Firefox and you should have a nice new search engine added to the drop down list of the search box. • MT Plugins Directory • Learning Movable Type • Movalog

Any others? Post them in the comments!

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Today a new version of MTLookup, the search engine for Movable Type related information, has been released. Several new features have been implemented.

In a couple of days, I will describe all improvements in detail. Here is a summary of the most important changes.

More Websites

With the initial release of MTLookup just the three websites Movable Type Weblog, Learning Movable Type, and Movalog were included.

Today, 20 websites are spidered. There are Movable Type resouce websites, Six Apart websites, and CSS related websites. These are...

Tutorials

• Movable Type Weblog • Learning Movable Type • Movalog • Dan&Sherree • geekmum {movable cafe} • MT-Hacks • PubHacks • Staggernation...

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When I first launched the Style Generator, the biggest request I got was to have some sort of colour scheme chooser or a random style generator. After a few attempts (and a lot of help from Brad Choate), I've finally managed to create the Random Styler. This random styler is capable of generating thousands of different Vicksburg variations with the click of a button (and some AJAX magic!). Some advanced features include: • Being able to change the number of columns (e.g. from a 2 column layout to a 3 column layout and so on) • The ability to edit the stylesheet generated - clicking the edit button will take you to the Style Generator where the stylesheet will be preloaded and you can tweak it...

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2.0b2 (2002.02.20)

• Sort categories and authors in power-edit screen. • Changed input box styles back to 20px so that they are not too small in Windows. • Added caching of templates when rebuilding archives; this means that for each archive type, each archive template need only be loaded once. Hopefully this will improve performance. • Fixed bug where Convert Line Breaks setting was not applied to preview page. • Shortened manual split page names so that they don't get truncated. • Export now exports in ascending chronological order....

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In the past few weeks I've managed to make MT Blogroll work on a Windows/IIS environment. I have only tested this plugin on one server so I'm not entirely sure how well this works. So Download MT-Blogroll_2.02.zip and follow the installation instructions. The only difference for you Windows users is that the contents of the lib/ folder in the distribution must go into the extlib/ directory hence you get extlib/Blogroll etc.

The only requirement is that you have MT 3.16 installed as important bugs were fixed.

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Yes, I realize Movable Type is not a general-purpose content management system, but if you're in a pinch it can do wonders. Especially with this plugin, which allows you to associate other bits of data with your entries which can be extracted conviently in your templates. (Click the more link for more information.)

Availability

You can download this plugin here: mtkeyvalues-1_53.zip

Installation

To install, place the...

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