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81. Spam

Murky, Tutorials, 22 KB, 231 words

I'm sitting in Spam Free Bliss at the moment. I had the weird experience of waking up to not one spam.

McAfee Spamkiller intercepted most of them, with Thunderbird catching the rest (which I duly scolded the McAfee filter for).

On the website, there was a flurry of spammy comments and trackbacks last night, but the new SpamLookup filter built into MT3.2 just swept them all into the 'Junk' folder, in case of false positives. Not one made it to the site, no cleanup to do, as has been the case.

Sheer bliss.

(Some sites point out that MT doesn't come with new templates. This is true for upgrades as you wouldn't want it to go over modified templates. You can...

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82. Pre-installed plugins Archives

Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 18 KB, 281 words

In order to provide extra functionality to Movable Type users not tied to normal release cycles and to provide solid examples for developers of use of the Plugin API and best Movable Type prorgamming practices, we will from time to time bundle plugins with Movable Type.

With Movable Type 3.2, there are three included plugins which we will detail in their own sections. • NofollowSpamLookupTemplate Backup/Refresh

Like the Movable Type application, these plugins are supported by Six Apart. If you experience any problems using these plugins and you are a paid licensee, you can submit a help ticket with our Technical Support staff....

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83. Movalog: Archiving Archives

Movalog, Tutorials, 18 KB, 396 words

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Ajax Archive Drop Downs

In this thread, Gary highlighted how to have drop downs of archives that basically redirected to the appropriate page once an archive was chosen. With this tutorial, I'll take that one step further and use AJAX such that when you...

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Posted on 07/03/2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Yearly Archives

One feature I find lacking in MT is yearly archives. A yearly archive basically is just a page of twelve calendars - one for each month of the year - see mine in action here with permalinks to the days....

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84. MT-Blacklist 2.0e

Movalog, Tutorials, 24 KB, 390 words

Jay Allen has released MT-Blacklist 2.0e. It is an emergency release so you will be facing bugs. If you want to see what 2.0e looks like before you install it, take a look at Neil's tour, althought a few versions old, the GUI has remained much the same !

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85. Ajax Archive Drop Downs

Movalog, Tutorials, 31 KB, 856 words

In this thread, Gary highlighted how to have drop downs of archives that basically redirected to the appropriate page once an archive was chosen. With this tutorial, I'll take that one step further and use AJAX such that when you select an archive, rather than redirecting to the corresponding archive page, the appropriate posts will just replace those currently shown. You can see a pretty basic example heremp;

First of all, here's the AJAX code that you'll need to put within your <head></head> tags <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- var xmlhttp=false; /*@cc_on @*/ /*@if (@_jscript_version >= 5) try { xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); }...

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86. Build Dynamically?

Movalog, Tutorials, 27 KB, 759 words

Almost all my blogs have the "Set Each Template's Build Options Separately" option selected and the dynamic setting on my hundreds of templates is varied. I wanted to be able to see immediately which templates were and which templates were not rebuilt dynamically from the templates listing view. A screenshot of how this look is above (click for a larger view) Obviously, this hack is only valid for MT versions equal to or greater than 3.1

You will need your list_template.tmpl file. Find

<th width="20%"><MT_TRANS phrase="Build w/Indexes"></th>

and replace it with

<TMPL_IF NAME=DYNAMIC_CUSTOM><th width="10%"><MT_TRANS...

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87. Movalog: RSS Archives

Movalog, Tutorials, 18 KB, 405 words

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RSS 2.0 Full Text

I've just updated the RSS 2.0 index with full body, a link to extended entry and comments listing. I'm sorry it took so long, I thought that I had done this before. So now you've got three choices: RSS 1.0...

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Posted on 08/10/2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sideblog RSS

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...

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Posted on 08/01/2004 | Permalink | Comments (4)

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88. Syndicate This Site

Movalog, News, 24 KB, 397 words

Even more ways to be updated on new posts on Movalog. I've pulled together all my feeds that I generate and have added them to one page. The feeds currently available are separate feeds for Movalog and the Sideblog and a combined set that will display posts as shown on the front page. With the impending release of the directory and forums, two more feeds will appear from each.

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89. Movalog: Dynamic Archives

Movalog, Tutorials, 23 KB, 750 words

Page: 1 1 Page.

Dynamic Publishing - Pros and Cons

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...

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Posted on 05/28/2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Troubleshooting Smarty Errors

Tutorial cross posted on Movalog and Learning Movable Type If you move from static publishing to dynamic publishing in Movable Type, you may encounter a variety of confusing error messages in Smarty, the system...

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90. Blogging Grows Up

Movalog, News, 24 KB, 402 words

From molly.com, Blogging Grows Up tracks MT from the very start through the licensing debacle to where it is now - a few weeks away from 3.1 ! Unless you have a membership with Salon you won't be able to read the full article. Alternatively, you could go through three pages of ads to get a free day pass. If you're interested in how MT evolved this is a very interesting read !

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91. White and Blacklist Emails

Movalog, Tutorials, 23 KB, 392 words

The Email Whitelister plugin has been updated to v1.01 to fix several bugs faced by people.

Also due to popular demand, I've released the Email Blacklister plugin which functions exactly like the Whitelister except it junks comments if the email address entered matches one on the blacklist. Currently the plugin is fairly basic and doesn't allow you to enter any wildcard or regex values. A future version will hopefully contain such functionality.

Happy antispamming!

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92. Movalog: Hacks Archives

Movalog, Tutorials, 25 KB, 914 words

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Blog Selective Hacks

One of the biggest problems of simple hacks to the system is that they occur system wide, e.g. if you hacked the entry page to specify a default category, that category would become the default for all blogs on the...

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Posted on 07/30/2005 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Feedback during Power Editing

Many people have asked me how to display the status of comments and trackbacks on the power edit entries screen. This hack will guide you through the process of adding two fields, as shown by the screenshot. One is...

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93. Password Protection

Movalog, Tutorials, 25 KB, 420 words

Adam Kalsey has posted a tip on how to password protect your blog by adding PHP to your templates. The PHP is very easily integrated with MT's database !

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94. Movalog: PowerRebuild Archives

Movalog, Tutorials, 19 KB, 425 words

Page: 1 1 Page.

PowerRebuild 1.1

Some of you may remember the RebuildBlogs plugin I had created that allowed you to selectively rebuild multiple blogs at once. Although the plugin worked as is with 3.2, it didn't take advantage of some of its newest features, namely...

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Posted on 08/26/2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

MT RebuildBlogs

UPDATE: I've released v1.01 due to bugs faced with the paths to the plugin being incorrect on pre-3.16 systems. Download MT-RebuildBlogs_1.01.zip and follow the installation instructions. I often need to rebuild many blogs on my system because I make system...

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95. Movalog: Blogroll Archives

Movalog, Tutorials, 23 KB, 798 words

Page: 1 1 Page.

MT Blogroll 2.11

This is a bug fix release that fixes some major bugs with the dynamic templating tags. A big thank you to all the folks that reported this bug, sorry it took me so long to find the bug! Go grab...

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Posted on 09/15/2005 | Permalink | Comments (4)

MT Blogroll 2.1

MT Blogroll has been updated to be compatible with Movable Type 3.2 and includes some new features too: Improved UI - The UI has been drastically improved to fit in better with 3.2, you can see the new UI elements...

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Posted on 08/28/2005 | Permalink | Comments (6)

MT Blogroll 2.02

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96. Spam Upsurge

Murky, Tutorials, 24 KB, 451 words

I have been getting an increasing amount of comment spam of late. Nightly there have been multiple posts along the lines of 'Nice blog, keep up the good work', and 'I can't believe I have never run across your site before'.

You might wonder where the spam in this is, the thing is that there are hundreds of them, many identical on multiple posts, and seem to exist purely to direct traffic to another site (which is one of a range of sites).

Not one of these has reached the live pages, yet the spammer keeps trying. Idiot. I know they probably aren't checking that every spam gets through, but you'd expect them to check from time to time!

All that happens is that the...

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97. Recent Comments

Movalog, Tutorials, 25 KB, 476 words

There are two types of ways you can show recent comments on your sidebar. The first method is to shown last N comments.

<MTComments lastn="5" sort_order="descend"> <MTCommentEntry> [<a href="<MTEntryLink archive_type="Individual">#c<$MTCommentID$>" title="Comment Permalink">#</a>] </MTCommentEntry> <$MTCommentAuthorLink spam_protect="1" show_email="0"$> <MTCommentAuthorIdentity>: <MTCommentBody convert_breaks="0" trim_to="50" remove_html="1"> <MTCommentEntry> [<a href="<MTEntryLink...

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98. For your convenience

Movalog, Tutorials, 24 KB, 421 words

If you like to read MovaLog, you may wish to add this blog to your aggregator.

I quite like this tool because it allows you to output your rss in such a way that it is easiest for your readers. Currently the tool supports most popular RSS aggregators like Bloglines, My Yahoo! and Bot a Blog. Of course if you use some other aggregator - like Feeddemon - you could manually add the xml feed to your subscription list !

For more information on RSS check out http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/ and http://www.learningmovabletype.comsyndication.php

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99. More Intuitive Quicktags

Movalog, Tutorials, 24 KB, 429 words

Since my latest upgrade to 3.16, I haven't bothered to implement my quicktags hack so I was left with the default quicktags. Out of habit, I hit the quicktags to create the necessary HTML then enter my content, however with the default quicktags, you have to first select the text then click the quicktag. I decided to change that. Open up mt.js and find the formatStr function

function formatStr (e, v) {

and on the third line of this function delete this

if (!str) return;

That's it, now when you click the quicktag, it'll create the opening and closing tag.

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100. Movalog Sideblog

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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mgs | September 27th 2005